Synonym: immediate, moment, pressing, prompt, quick, second, urgent. Similar words: instantly, instance, constant, for instance, install, distant, assistant, installation. Meaning: ['ɪnstənt] n. 1. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat) 2. a particular point in time. adj. 1. occurring with no delay 2. in or of the present month 3. demanding attention.
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241. George Gardiner and Alfred Sherman sat in an anteroom ready at an instant to do her bidding.
242. He grinds the stub down carefully and looks at it an instant reverentially.
243. The instant the tasting was over, the count headed straight for the airport.
244. If you are seeking a highly profitable instant business, you will probably be disappointed-it does not exist.
245. Their grandmother, she said, would have washed out their mouths that instant with carbolic soap.
246. A wild beast does not at once become tame, or a new breed arise in an instant.
247. I was also aware that he would probably kill me in an instant if he could.
248. Once, for an instant, she lost her concentration and a smile cracked across her features.
249. Coffee brewed from ground coffee beans costs more than coffee made from an instant product.
249. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
250. In an instant the whole gang of flashing boys swept in.
251. For when one is dealing with such volatile temperaments, the slightest thing may result in my instant dismissal.
252. The captured instant often takes on meanings far more portentous than the actual event.
253. The geranium seemed to vibrate for an instant, swaying sideways as if caught by a breeze.
254. This true-life horror story coming out of Los Angeles a few years back became an instant media sensation.
255. The trick was to turn off the instant you stepped on to the catwalk.
256. He was advised to cut out all instant coffee from his diet and since then has kept very well by doing so.
257. He could only regard her existential pain as a cup of instant coffee to be sweetened with saccharin.
258. It demanded accelerated exaltation, accepted no instant without pregnant meanings as in epic, tragedy, comedy[sentencedict.com], or films.
259. But the next instant stewards with extinguishers appeared and the fire was doused.
260. The instant response was very favourable and next morning the reviews were superb.
261. At the same instant he glimpsed a flutter of movement in one of the downstairs rooms.
262. The instant they landed, she glanced across at the paper.
263. She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
264. In a transforming instant, the est intellectual truth is seen to be that intellectual truth is of no account.
265. The small, round, dark blue skin invites instant eating, and the fruit is amazingly versatile on the table.
266. Shearer, an instant hit at Blackburn, has yet to convince me.
267. The instant I breached the threshold, the alarm went off.
268. Nor could I detect my instant of failure, the chink in my armor.
269. Then in the next instant she groaned inwardly, cursing her wayward thoughts.
270. Doone, with his promise of instant detection once I woke up, must have been the end of hope.
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