How to Use on the spot in a Sentence

on the spot

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  • Instead of stopping and reaching for a phone to write it down, users can simply record a voice note on the spot.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 13 July 2026
  • Customization will be done on the spot, allowing fans to take home their one-of-one sneakers.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 15 July 2026
  • Johnson pieced together the basic building blocks of the story on the spot.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
  • That visit also gets you a full project estimate on the spot, including materials and labor.
    Sharon Wu, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • When the decision on trans athletes was made the other day by the Supreme Court were the Justices swarmed by an angry mob and beheaded on the spot?
    Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • Then, just as Hawkins manages to get himself out of a particularly dire bunker, Old Henry collapses and dies on the spot.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2026
  • By braking the inside wheels while driving the outside wheels forwards, the system allows the SUV to rotate through 360 degrees on the spot.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a statement of the 34 people injured in the strikes, 32 were taken to the hospital; two others were treated on the spot.
    Chris Boccia, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • Instead of seeking out additional evidence, Uebelhoer asked Sebold to draft an affidavit on the spot, explaining what had happened.
    Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • The July 8 ruling prevents law enforcement from being able to deport migrants who swim into the territories, reversing a practice of deporting them on the spot without a legal process.
    Miguel MacIas, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
  • This game preserves the difficulty of coming up with an elaborate, consistent false narrative on the spot, and the challenge of adapting that narrative on the fly when other players present convincing (and sometimes fake) counter-evidence.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 30 June 2026
  • As the National Court Reporters Association has long emphasized, only a human charged with the care of the record can pause a proceeding to resolve an ambiguity on the spot.
    K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • But rather than release Broadwater and continue gathering evidence, an assistant district attorney, Gail Uebelhoer, asked Sebold to draft an affidavit on the spot, explaining what had happened.
    ProPublica, 14 July 2026

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