Example Sentences

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We will accept a synthetic human that looks and moves realistically, Mori wrote, but only up to a point; our satisfaction drops precipitately once the resemblance becomes close enough to nearly—but not quite—fool us.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2014

The Chinese South took East’s club jack with her ace, played a spade to dummy’s queen and precipitately finessed in hearts.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2014

Global spam activity abruptly and precipitately began to drop by the millions and then billions of messages.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2013

In the 2008 presidential election, he replaced those positions too precipitately with a new product line, spawning a consumer backlash.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2011

You won’t have anything else here.” and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott