shortly

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

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for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive"

Meaning at a glance

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adverb

for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive"

adverb

in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long"

adverb

in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shortly.

adverb

for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive"

adverb

in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long"

adverb

in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"

adverb

in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly"

adverb

at a short distance; "the hem fell shortly below her knees"

Example sentences

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They basically said "we are too busy to update the website right now but we will do so shortly.

He said the recruiter would request a ride, sometimes 4 or 5 times, and keep getting him, then she would cancel shortly afterward when she recognized his name.

This life is but a breath or, as my 100-year-old grandmother said shortly before she passed on, everything that she had experienced to that point was "but a blink.

Of course, GitHub did not invent git, but they made it easy to host your repositories, and once Rails migrated to GitHub, the rest of the Ruby world came with it - followed shortly thereafter by a sizable chunk of the wider web development community.