RAPIDLY in a Sentence

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Two hours did he sit over this meal, then poured himself out another cup of the rapidly cooling tea, and walked to the window.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAPIDLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rapidly
 ad.  with rapid movements
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Two hours did he sit over this meal, then poured himself out another cup of the rapidly cooling tea, and walked to the window.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  And entering his gig, Kostanzhoglo drove rapidly away.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  Some carts harnessed with unbridled horses were moving rapidly along a narrow by-road.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Dressed in a light check jacket and snow-white trousers, he was walking rapidly along the road; under his arm he carried a box wrapped up in green cloth.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  The staircase creaked under rapidly approaching footsteps.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  A January day was drawing to its close; the cold evening was more keen than ever in the motionless air, and a lurid sunset was rapidly dying away.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  I walked rapidly through the dark shop into the familiar drawing-room, where there was only one candle burning, and stood still in amazement: there was no one there.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
8  Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
9  She took a sheet of paper and her hand moved rapidly over it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
10  I have written to my poor mother, said the smiling Mademoiselle Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r's.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
11  He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son was accustomed to understand him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
12  His eyes ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was a battery to their left.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
13  The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
14  He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly round the company.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
15  said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing gown, he went to the couch on which he slept.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
16  They were aware that their public image was rapidly going down the drain.
17  The movement for reform rapidly gathered momentum.
18  Islam spread rapidly through North Africa.
19  He rough-hewed a statue out of a block of jade rapidly but then polished it slowly over a long period.
20  The frequency of Kara's phone calls increased rapidly.
21  A new ore - dressing plant is rapidly going up.
22  The Pacific region has rapidly emerged as a leading force on the world stage.
23  The latter, as will be discussed below, is particularly important in a world where the resource base is diminishing rapidly.
24  The probability is that prices will rise rapidly.
25  The government's popularity is declining rapidly, as the opinion polls show.
26  Simple organisms like bacteria mutate rapidly.
27  In warm weather these germs multiply rapidly.
28  These ideas rapidly became the new orthodoxy in linguistics.
29  The disease spread rapidly throughout Europe.
30  They worked rapidly down the menu of reports.