Examples of shortly in a Sentence
He left shortly after you did.
“I can't help you right now,” he said shortly.
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
The Jackson County Public Library posted a statement on Facebook Sunday evening, shortly before the sheriff announced Morrow's arrest.
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No deaths were reported in the wrecks, but six deaths inside the five boroughs were blamed on the ice-cold weather that arrived shortly before the snow.
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
The Jackson County Public Library posted a statement on Facebook Sunday evening, shortly before the sheriff announced Morrow's arrest.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
No deaths were reported in the wrecks, but six deaths inside the five boroughs were blamed on the ice-cold weather that arrived shortly before the snow.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
Gideon Koren was born in Tel Aviv in 1947, shortly before the establishment of the Israeli state.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Shortly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shortly. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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