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How To Use shortly In A Sentence

• It was the last big wreck of the steam era on the C.P.R., occurring shortly before I began railroading.
• Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
• But shortly afterwards they wrote to him informing him that the job offer had been withdrawn.
• Shortly after my Ph.D. Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Autobiography
• A split from his long-time girlfriend shortly after only served to drive him further into the darkness. Times, Sunday Times
• I am assuming as they are looking for the will that the flash sidewards was taking place shortly after the plane had landed, at which point Kate is on the run from the police and definitely not bringing up a child. LOSTCasts 82: The Lighthouse
• At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
• Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
• One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
• Shortly after Joe Haldeman received a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland, he was drafted into the army where he served (and received a Purple Heart medal) as a combat engineer in Vietnam. MIND MELD: The Funniest Writers in the History of SF/F