How to Use in a heartbeat in a Sentence

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• High winds, rain, hail and pests can change your plans in a heartbeat.
  — Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2024
• Baylor would take that stat line in a heartbeat.
  — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• Knowing that and where this pick will land, the Avs make this move again in a heartbeat.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• With Giannis, that would change in a heartbeat.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
• Roberta Bell is the kind of woman who wears her heart on her sleeve, who would give it away in a heartbeat.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• But, in a heartbeat, governments could intervene and shut these things down.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• The single collects both a gold plaque and a platinum one at the same time, going from no awards to two in a heartbeat.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• There’s 50 million dudes in this country who would change places with Scott in a heartbeat.
  — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 16 June 2025
• Because with persistence, your fortunes could change in a heartbeat.
  — Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2023
• The master builder of the brand, Walt Disney himself, would have done the same in a heartbeat.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
• And debtors remained at the mercy of rising interest rates that swelled the size of debt payments in a heartbeat.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• Equally, there are millions of Iranian women who would lose their scarves in a heartbeat.
  — Tara Kangarlou, Time, 19 Sep. 2022
• But despite the hurt from the loss, Wolfe knows there are a lot of teams that would switch places with the Bulldogs in a heartbeat.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2022
• The ability to make money online is so abundant that people can quit working for you in a heartbeat and match their salary.
  — Sam Kaufman, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Like the airlines, these types of companies will cancel or defer their orders in a heartbeat should demand ebb.
  — Brian Foley, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• As frightening as any of this night’s evil surprises was the speed with which my worst fear became, in a heartbeat, our best and only hope.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• And that decision has to be made in a heartbeat at the end of a mile-long ice chute covered at speeds exceeding 90 mph.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• Ah, but things changed in a heartbeat when Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez scored in the 93rd minute.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
• Oh, absolutely, in a heartbeat.
  — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
• Despite his struggles, each of the other 29 other teams would take him in a heartbeat — a consensus among league sources.
  — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 29 May 2025
• But Bob was that person that, no matter what happened, Bob would drop anything for you in a second, in a heartbeat.
  — Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2022
• Questions will in a heartbeat go from truly profound to utterly frivolous.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• Known for the ‘Green Mile’, a three-hole gauntlet that can chew up a lead in a heartbeat, pros will have to be dialed in to the max to even make the cut.
  — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
• Growing up may happen in a heartbeat, but growing apart is not an option for the cast of The Wonder Years.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
• For fans of retro and classic arcade games like those found on old Atari systems, the Evercade will send you back to that bygone era in a heartbeat.
  — Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2022
• My testing also shows that their ingenious bamboo fabric is extremely breathable and lightweight, and dries in a heartbeat.
  — Maverick Li, menshealth.com, 13 June 2023
• Chad Jennings’ story on how Ichiro silenced skeptics in a heartbeat was really great.
  — Chris Branch, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• Baby Alien's clue packages made no reference to the athlete's famous butt fumble, which would've made even non-sports fans guess Sanchez in a heartbeat.
  — EW.com, 4 Jan. 2024
• The actors joked about how trying to put on medical gloves quickly enough while remembering and acting out dialogue can make scenes go sideways in a heartbeat.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
• Lower down the age range are Max Dowman and Marli Salmon, who would be snapped up for big money in a heartbeat but are off-limits.
  — Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026