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How to use promptly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for promptly.

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As for Google+, I signed up briefly when it launched but then promptly closed it.

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with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"

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adverb

with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"

adverb

in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly"

adverb

at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence); "he promptly forgot the address"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for promptly.

adverb

with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"

adverb

in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly"

adverb

at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence); "he promptly forgot the address"

Example sentences

As for Google+, I signed up briefly when it launched but then promptly closed it.

The dolphin promptly went to the mother and did the same to the scientist with milk !

They'd pay a huge premium to acquire a bunch of Android customers than they'd promptly purge.

I was scared I would get fired, so I promptly made new buns, but spent the rest of my shift trying to get rid of my blunder.

And that I don't think about price is literally true until I'm told how much it costs, then I pay it, then I promptly stop thinking about it.

Being a smart guy he promptly threw away all of my code and rewrote it in a more solid fashion, adding async support, error handling and more.

Thankfully she was wise enough to marry a geek who promptly told her not to upgrade her iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and not to swap it out for an iPhone 5. In fact, not one person in my family will do either of those things.

I just found out about the issue as I bought a Japanese iPhone5S in January and promptly returned it the next day because I couldn't turn off the camera sound.

Or rather, after reading the article, some naked-image scanners to be removed, and then promptly replaced with others from a different company.

Nip it in the bud. Running off to write yet another gender-division-in-the-tech-world blog which will be read, primarily, by the sort of folk who already agree with you isn't going to make nearly as much of a difference as taking care of issues promptly.

Don't get me wrong, it happened to me too on my iPad when I upgraded to iOS 6, but I simply sent an email to the developers, asking them whether a fix is going to come in the next day or two and they replied back promptly that I should wait for a fix later that day.