Sample sentences for INSTANTANEOUS

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Definition

immediate (happening instantly with no delay)

In physics, instantaneous can mean at a specific instant (an unmeasurably short time period) — such as "instantaneous velocity".

Relief was instantaneous.

instantaneous = immediate

Communications between earth and a spacecraft are not instantaneous.

instantaneous = without any delay

She was in a car crash and died instantaneously.

instantaneously = immediately (in an instant)

Symptoms of a heart attack usually come on gradually, and are rarely instantaneous.

instantaneous = without any delay

The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
I tell her he was shot through the heart and died instantaneously.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

instantaneously = immediately (in an instant)

There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)

May I never come back if he wasn't killed instantaneously.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

instantaneously = immediately (in an instant)

...we teach them to fling themselves into holes as quick as lightning before the shells with instantaneous fuses;
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

instantaneous = immediately (in an instant)

Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

instantaneous = immediately (in an instant)

The District Commissioner changed instantaneously.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
In small towns, news is nearly instantaneous.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
I swear his death was instantaneous—a lightning stroke.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
It is seemingly instantaneous at last.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Here is an instantaneous photograph one of our boys got of the battle; it's for sale on every news-stand.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Billy's reflexes were very good and his reaction was instantaneous.
Stephen King -- Carrie
For then instantaneously we became young ladies possessed of a certain manner.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
Only a few molecules would kill instantaneously...... The hood lay flush against the surface of the lab table.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

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