pronto
promptly; quickly.
Origin of pronto
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How to use pronto in a sentence
Step away politely, apologise profusely, and find a taxi, pronto.
Does California’s College Rape Bill Go Too Far In Regulating Sex? | Emma Woolf | June 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey yapped and pulled at their leads with such energy that Winkelmann insisted we climb back into the sled, pronto.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHelp us understand them, those Iraqis and Afghans, better ... and pronto.
Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too? | John Kael Weston | August 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI wrote two books about Raylan before the series [Riding the Rap and pronto].
And later, when the giant tries to climb after Jack, the beanstalk has to be chopped down pronto.
Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir | Jeanette Winterson | March 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Just as the q-b was working up to the rage I had at last calmed down from, appeared the shawl-swathed girl announcing "pronto!"
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence“Al suo comodo è pronto,” she said, referring to the dinner, and hurried away again to dish up the veal cutlets.
Olive in Italy | Moray Dalton"Give you nothin', except a dose of lead, if you don't git out pronto," snarled the man.
Pluck on the Long Trail | Edwin L. SabinHe certainly did assimilate my advice and drag it out of town muy pronto.
The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. KyneUnderstand, if you ketch anybody cantelopin' around a-foot, you just ride 'em off the range pronto.
Overland Red | Henry Herbert Knibbs
British Dictionary definitions for pronto
/ (ˈprɒntəʊ) /
informal at once; promptly
Origin of pronto
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