How to Use at short notice in a Sentence

at short notice

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• The past two elections have been postponed at short notice and there are fears this one will suffer the same fate.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• Both joined Brazil and England at short notice, as if time on task was not an issue.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• Don't allow this guy at short notice to catch you off guard and give you anything unexpected.
  — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• Coal’s advantage is that power plants can switch from natural gas to the fuel at short notice.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle and Joe Wallace, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Sanya is back on again after a cancelation earlier this month at short notice.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• These ships can be called upon for government fuel transport contracts at short notice.
  — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
• He is used to being the alternative, the second choice thrown into a penalty box at short notice.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
• The 2020 edition had to be canceled at short notice due to the pandemic.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2024
• The summit lost two of its lead speakers—Jensen Huang and Bill Gates—at short notice.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
• Schools scrambled to upload curriculums online at short notice.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2021
• Residents still face the daily risk of being confined to their apartments or housing compounds for days or weeks at short notice.
  — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• The oligarch came and went in his private jet and kept a spare jet in Anchorage in case another might be needed at short notice.
  — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• Experienced pilots have a specialized skill set that requires years to develop and is hard to find at short notice.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
• Restaurant and hotel workers, who can’t work from home, have been scarred by unexpected changes in lockdown rules that have pulled them in and out of work at short notice.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• The hotel had been requisitioned at short notice and there was a banner advertising last-minute wedding deals.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
• Fulham could not find a replacement at short notice last summer and Palhinha signed a new deal not long afterwards.
  — Omar Garrick, The Athletic, 11 July 2024
• Many were forced to flee Russia at short notice, leaving behind possessions and a sense of purpose provided by their work.
  — Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• In this way, the European coalition could project airpower into Ukraine at short notice.
  — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
• The result is a flood of reluctant travelers — people who are fortunate enough to afford to book hotels at short notice but would still rather be home.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
• So there are specialist firms that allow corporations to gain access to large amounts of Bitcoin at short notice to be able to make those payments.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2021
• In Tehran’s thinking, its ability to change its mind at short notice is a way to prevent coercion or attack from its adversaries.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
• In a terse text message, her office referred all questions about why the meeting was canceled at short notice to the State Department.
  — Lorne Cook and Matthew Lee The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2025
• Renters should not have to live with the constant anxiety that a home can be taken away at short notice, disrupting work, school, friendships, care and community life.
  — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Cybercrime conventions set up 24/7 contact points so police forces can co-operate at short notice.
  — Jon Truby, Time, 29 Dec. 2025
• With Samsung now having to ride to the rescue (and at short notice), expect Apple to be paying a pretty price for its assistance.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• If a conductor or engineer calls in ill at short notice, the company has to find a backup to replace the absentee, and this can be costly or difficult.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
• The Saudis can also ramp up output at short notice, to more than 12 million barrels a day, if the world needs it—something no other country can do.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• Brand purchasing practices can put workers’ rights at risk by putting pressure on supplier factories to meet unreasonable production demands at short notice.
  — Áine Clarke, Sourcing Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
• Amid news of promising vaccine trials, the government is also preparing for a widespread rollout and plans to get immunization centers ready to operate at short notice.
  — Naomi Kresge, Bloomberg.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Although crypto mines are unique in their ability to switch off at short notice (unlike a factory, which may take hours to shut down), Shelley says the case for placing the extra strain on the grid in the first place is full of holes.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022