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Example sentences for "shortly"

Lexicographically close words:
shorthorn; shortish; shortleaf; shortlie; shortlived; shortlye; shortned; shortness; shortnesse; shorts
  1. It has been announced that he will shortly make an appearance in public.

  2. Shortly after, Thorpe left him to amuse the others with his unique conversation, and hunted up Shearer's stopping-place.

  3. By the indications on the river, he judged that a crew of men had shortly before taken out a drive of logs.

  4. The air brakes began to make themselves felt, and shortly the train came to a grinding stop.

  5. A number broke into the store, and shortly emerged, bearing pails of kerosene with which they deluged the slabs on the windward side of the mill.

  6. Shortly after his marriage he rented a pew in the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield, and occupied it with his wife and children at the service each Sunday morning unless detained by illness.

  7. Shortly after his arrival in Indiana his mother died.

  8. It became necessary, therefore, for him to reconcile it with the decision of the Supreme Court, which he attempted to do by an able argument at Springfield shortly after.

  9. Shortly after this event, Senator Douglas returned from Washington and took the stump, attracting immense crowds and exciting great enthusiasm.

  10. Shortly after the election in 1860, when the situation at Washington was becoming critical, President Buchanan sought his advice, and Mr. Stanton prepared an argument to prove that a State could be coerced into remaining in the Union.

  11. The idea of making Lincoln a Presidential candidate seems to have occurred to a great many people at about the same time, and shortly after his inauguration a regiment might have been organized of the friends who first named him.

  12. One thing at least is certain, and that is that in the evening, shortly after we had returned to the village, a dozen or so 'crumps' were sent over to us.

  13. The steps approach, and very shortly the face of a man emerges from the cover.

  14. Shortly afterwards infantry emerged from the wood and advanced over open ground, as dark as the soil itself, and scarcely visible.

  15. October is already here; very shortly now we shall have the storms, the snows, the rains, all those elements that combine to discount mobility.

  16. It appears I was wise in my generation, for very shortly the "Fall in!

  17. One of them, tall, bony, with tanned skin and black eyes almost feverishly keen above a fine nose, expresses himself shortly and precisely.

  18. I think, however, that very shortly you will be able to tell us of still further victories and that you will return in glory to Toelz.

  19. Sainte-Marthe relates that shortly before her death she saw in a dream a very beautiful woman holding in her hand a crown of all sorts of flowers which she showed to her, telling her that she would soon be crowned with it.

  20. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday a great change took place in her life.

  21. News shortly arrived that the King had been transferred to Madrid, and that Charles demanded most onerous conditions for the release of his prisoner.

  22. At that period the collation, as the supper was called, was served at seven in the evening, shortly before the curfew.

  23. Shortly afterwards we find him furnishing her with information respecting the royal army, which had entered Hainault and was fighting there.

  24. The master of the house was not at home when we arrived, but came in from the field shortly afterwards.

  25. I did not rise, nor attempt to join the other people, and shortly afterwards my master entered the kitchen, and in a soft and gentle tone of voice, asked me if I was dead.

  26. When he was appointed Secretary of State he chose him as Under Secretary, and shortly before his death made him his literary executor, instructing him to collect his writings in a final and authentic edition.

  27. Dryden seems to have made his acquaintance shortly after arriving in London.

  28. Arjun too married the sister of Krishna, shortly after Draupadi's bridal, and had by her a son, Abhimanyu, who was one of the heroes of the war.

  29. Valadeva and Krishna die shortly after, and the city of the Yadavas is swallowed up by the ocean.

  30. He shortly after related to his family the gloomy particulars of the bump, when he returned home for the Easter vacation.

  31. He nodded shortly and went into the cottage, cutting short all further attempts at being communicative.

  32. These stanzas were completed shortly after the coronation of Charles VII.

  33. The era of feverish construction was shortly followed by the combination of lines and the formation of grand trunk railways and particular "systems.

  34. Shortly after 1870 a period of ruinous competition set in and was followed by severe financial crises among the railways.

  35. At all events, the railways found little or no fault with the Hepburn law, and shortly afterward began to raise their rates in the face of strong opposition from shippers.

  36. But it was shortly thereafter applied to a rate fixed by a legislature, and where the "reasonableness" (not the confiscatory character) of the rate was a direct issue on the facts and evidence.

  37. Mr. Taft, in a speech shortly after the decisions of the Court, expressed his pleasure at the outcome of the action and invited the confidence of the country in the policy announced.

  38. The attention of the country, shortly after the campaign of 1896, was diverted to the spectacular events of the Spanish War, and for a time appeals to patriotism subdued the passions of the radicals.

  39. Shortly after the Civil War, protests were heard against cheap Chinese labor, not only in the western states, but also in the East, where manufacturers were beginning to employ coolies to break strikes and crush unions.

  40. The postal savings system was shortly supplemented by a system of parcels post.

  41. It should be noted, also, that shortly after the formation of the concern the common stock which had been issued fell with a crash, and the outsiders who risked their fortunes in the concern were ruined.

  42. There are, indeed, some accounts of faction fights among the fairy bands at or shortly after a funeral, the question in dispute being whether the soul of the departed belonged to one or the other faction.

  43. After having enfranchised the children of their slaves, the Europeans of the southern states would very shortly be obliged to extend the same benefit to the whole black population.

  44. In the state of New York, which formerly contained many of these, there are but two who still keep their heads above the stream; and they must shortly disappear.

  45. If the minds of the Americans were free from all trammels, they would very shortly become the most daring innovators and the most implacable disputants in the world.

  46. Every half-century brings them nearer to each other, and they will very shortly meet.

  47. Shortly after the Hoboken was despatched to Bermuda as a prize, with the prisoners, the wounded, and the dying.

  48. And not without good reason," said Willis; "for it will go hard with me if I do not realize your hopes, and that very shortly too.

  49. Shortly after, the absentees arrived, each mounted on his favorite ostrich.

  50. On quitting the house," continued Wolston, "Herbert Philipson bent his way to the shore, and shortly after was observed to plunge into the sea.

  51. The patronesses left shortly afterward and the bevy of girls turned to with commendable energy to spend a merry hour setting the nursery to rights.

  52. She had given ample proof of this by sending for Marjorie one afternoon shortly after it had been organized to question her in kindly fashion concerning it.

  53. She stated shortly that she had told Marjorie Dean nothing.

  54. Shortly after delivering this Parthian shot, the disturbing advocate of the law smilingly took his departure, leaving a thoroughly miserable and frightened girl to digest his remarks at her leisure.

  55. On Sunday afternoon Jerry Macy appeared at the Deans shortly after dinner, proposing that she and Marjorie pay Lucy Warner a call.

  56. Shortly afterwards another general disregarded these orders, had the doors broken in, and turned the hall into a stable.

  57. Shortly before leaving on the present expedition, and after returning from the expedition by sea, which had wrecked the boat, they were surprised to find a man at their home, who had entirely lost his memory.

  58. He had been on the floor while the music was being performed, but disappeared shortly afterwards.

  59. Shortly after the noonday hour the roaring of the falling water was distinctly heard, and the boys hurried forward to see it, followed by the wagon.

  60. The yaks were hitched up shortly after breakfast, and the long, sloping descent began.

  61. They were nowhere in sight, but shortly afterwards John pointed to the right, and there plainly seen were the entire tribe waiting along the shore of a tributary which flowed into the stream from the west.

  62. Shortly after noon of the following day they reached home, and related their adventures.

  63. Four exploring trips had been made by land, and one by sea in a boat which had been specially built for the purpose, and this vessel was wrecked shortly after they had discovered the location of the savages.

  64. But papyrus fragments indicate that a large part of the material in it goes back to a time shortly after Alexander's death.

  65. After these speeches, Lucian was on hand when the pyre was kindled at Harpina near Olympia shortly after midnight.

  66. Very shortly she died, leaving him all her possessions.

  67. In fact, not long ago I completed arrangements to take charge of an independent trading post shortly to be established at Caribou Lake.

  68. He drove in at ten o'clock or very shortly after," Frazer told them.

  69. If the above do not prove that the apostle expected to be clothed upon with his house from heaven shortly after his earthly tabernacle were dissolved, then I must acknowledge my ignorance of his meaning.

  70. Convince me that not another child will be born into this world, and you will at once convince me that this world will shortly be destitute of a solitary inhabitant.

  71. Whitelock's speech seems to have been made shortly before the bar accepted the falling-band as an article of dress admissible in courts of law.

  72. To this house Sir Dudley North moved from his costly and dark mansion in the City, and in it he shortly afterwards died, under the hands of Dr.

  73. Mr. Morrison was, shortly afterwards, compelled to return to Scotland on account of his health.

  74. Nothing illustrated this feature so notably as an event which occurred shortly after her visit to Akpap.

  75. Shortly afterward she entered Rashiewell factory to learn weaving under the supervision of her mother.

  76. The three became intimates, and shortly afterward Miss Slessor went to live with the Doigs, and remained with them during her stay in the city.

  77. We would as soon have thought of going to the moon as of being absent from a service," she wrote shortly before she died.

  78. Shortly afterwards came a letter stating that "her selection had received the sanction and approval of His Most Gracious Majesty King George V.

  79. Shortly after she returned she wished to settle an important dispute that had been going on for a time between two sections of the Okoyong people.

  80. The loss affected him greatly, and hastened his death, which occurred shortly afterwards.

  81. Great changes are fermenting in the world; and of these changes, especially of those directly affecting our own country, I became actively conscious, shortly after I ascended the Throne.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abruptly; anon; betimes; briefly; curtly; directly; economically; harshly; immediately; momentarily; pointedly; presently; quickly; shortly; soon; summarily; swiftly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    shortly before; shortly before his death