Sample Sentences for
simultaneous
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  • With movements so swift they seemed simultaneous, Atticus's hand yanked a ball-tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder.  (source)
    simultaneous = to happen at the same time
  • The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously.  (source)
    simultaneously = at the same time
  • I nodded, and simultaneously another woman appeared, with bare feet.  (source)
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  • Then the doors of all the houses opened simultaneously, and out came women like a row of paper dolls.  (source)
    simultaneously = at the same time
  • What a simple thing in concept, the simultaneous ringing of thirty phones.†  (source)
  • The Simultaneity of Instants†  (source)
  • And, Govinda saw it like this, this smile of the mask, this smile of oneness above the flowing forms, this smile of simultaneousness above the thousand births and deaths, this smile of Siddhartha was precisely the same, was precisely of the same kind as the quiet, delicate, impenetrable, perhaps benevolent, perhaps mocking, wise, thousand-fold smile of Gotama, the Buddha, as he had seen it himself with great respect a hundred times.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • This was a lot like that, except that the English translations were going on simultaneously in her head.  (source)
  • Then, to Cinder's surprise, her shackles released with a simultaneous whistle of air.†  (source)
  • Peeping from behind a curtain, I note the simultaneity of their movements with delight.†  (source)
  • It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out.†  (source)
  • On one wall a woman smiled and drank orange juice simultaneously.  (source)
  • Our simultaneous movements caught each other's attention.†  (source)
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