ADVERB
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simultaneously
he took three cookies at a time -
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith
Come here now!
he answered immediately
found an answer straightaway
How To Use at once In A Sentence
- Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
- Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.
- With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
- After a bit, we mustered a varry nice pairty ov abaat a dozen, an 'as iverybody wor tawkin at once we managed to mak a fairish din. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
- Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- That not only means that more information can be crunched at once, but these chips can also handle more complex instructions.
- I advise you to own up at once.
- All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
- Pile each croute with the prawn mixture and serve at once. The Sun
- They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the “herd. †The “herd†consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
