How to Use presto in a Sentence

presto

1 of 2 adverb or adjective

• And then presto, del Potro started to move faster and hit harder.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• Cut to 1993, a couple of kids light the wrong candle and presto!
  — Meredith Woerner, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Just hold the citrus in one hand, press the reamer into the flesh with the other, and presto.
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 28 July 2019
• Just as with pelargonium, snip off a three inch piece at a node, place in water for 2-3 weeks, and presto!
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2017
• With additional manpower from other team members, the box was installed in the garden, and presto!
  — Janet Draper, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2017
• Show him brotherly love, fatherly discipline, bring him in to the fold, bathe him in your team’s magically-spectacular camaraderie, and presto.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• And extreme contrasts - the fourth movement has rapidly, repeatedly alternating speeds, adagio to presto - were narrowed, giving little shock.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2018

presto

2 of 2 noun

• Stir in pecans and pour into a frozen unbaked pie crust—presto!
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
• Jagger penned new lyrics, recorded new vocals, and presto — the band made its last classic.
  — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
• Each morning, the museum curator can just turn on the exhibit and presto!
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2025
• Over the course of a week, that adds up to a whole waking day that, presto change-o, returns to American mothers in the summer.
  — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
• Courtly grace rubbed elbows with earthy peasant humor, and the concluding presto was alive with the ebullience Haydn dished out like no other composer.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017