INSTANTANEOUS in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for INSTANTANEOUS, such as:

1. He had an instantaneous response.
2. The touch had its instantaneous effect.
3. The effect on the Hurons was instantaneous.
4. His death had certainly been instantaneous and painless.
5. Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a consent.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSTANTANEOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
instantaneous
 a.  instant; immediate; occurring with no delay
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The touch had its instantaneous effect.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
2  At last the keeper heaved the back of the chair off the ground and, with an instantaneous push of his foot, tried to loosen the wheels.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
3  Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a consent.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which must have caused instantaneous death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
5  His death had certainly been instantaneous and painless.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
6  Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
7  This well-judged and politic stroke on the part of Magua was not without instantaneous results.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  The effects of this attack were instantaneous, and to the scout and his friends greatly relieving.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
9  The effect on the Hurons was instantaneous.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
10  The flash of lightning, the crash of thunder, and the instantaneous chill that ran through him were all merged for Levin in one sense of terror.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 17
11  This reasoning was clear and instantaneous; so that without giving time to the Inquisitor to recover from his surprise, he pierced him through and through, and cast him beside the Jew.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  Yet barely a minute had elapsed before this instantaneously aroused emotion had, as instantaneously, disappeared from his wooden features.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
13  Bazarov quickly scanned the letter, and made an effort to control himself, that he might not show the malignant feeling which was instantaneously aflame in his breast.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  She felt simply dismayed, with a sort of cold and suffocating dismay; the thought that she would not have felt like that if she had really loved him flashed instantaneously through her brain.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  Well might the velocity of light be called instantaneous by the early observers.
2  He had an instantaneous response.