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Meanings of instant in English
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
Synonyms
Examples for "crying"
Examples for "crying"
1
She thought she heard another sound too: muffled voices crying for help.
2
Ms Webber said about a week after leaving, Karlie called her crying.
3
Sean had to watch what he said in case he started crying.
4
My second crying fit came three or four days after the funeral.
5
There was a great, long moment of hugging, laughing, crying, and beeping.
1
He, however, is still insistent that the president step down from power.
2
An attempted seduction takes the form of insistent verbal demands: 'Say heat.
3
She'd spoken faintly through the current-sohard to understand, yet quite insistent.
4
The insistent tooting sound carried a long way in the calm air.
5
I'm right, aren't I?' Harper leaned forward, his tone of voice insistent.
1
All his old exigent, extravagant liking for rich clothing returned to him.
2
For a woman, who is a woman, never forgets to be exigent.
3
They've claimed exigent circumstances, which we'll argue the court should reject. He shrugs.
4
I am afraid I shall be selfish and exigent to the last degree.
5
He was a Genoese weaver's son with a large, clamorous, and exigent family.
1
It is never out of ear, and in politics is especially clamant.
2
It was more glittering, more raffish, more clamant of the tenderloin than ever.
3
The room was clamant with the voices of the company.
4
The hall gong, growing in a clamant intensity, rang out on the quiet air.
5
We pressed through the clamant multitude until we had reached the middle of the square.
Usage of instant in English
1
Change doesn't happen overnight and in society today people want instant success.
2
In an instant you forget; the sky is bright; the blood pounds.
3
Again Shy was given a flailing instant aloft to consider the situation.
4
In an instant all was in confusion; and the peace had fled.
5
After years of preparing moment by moment, everything changed in an instant.
6
South Korea has offered instant food, water, medicine, blankets and other supplies.
7
They add that a two-day training course does not produce instant experts.
8
He feels the change in an instant; the hands know it too.
9
So to get anything instant and good we shall return to film.
10
They became instant great friends, shared a common passion for the Beatles.
11
Making instant porridge is easy, being an instant family far from it.
12
But this ancient and simple form of cooking is far from instant.
13
CNN's instant poll of debate watchers gave the debate to Mr Biden.
14
Setting up and protecting new, instant networks in war zones, for one.
15
In an instant it all burst upon her; the whole splendid truth.
16
Sure to be an instant hit at your Christmas party this year.
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Instant through the time
Instant across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Canada
Common
United States of America
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