How to Use quickie in a Sentence
quickie
noun- I would like to have a meeting. It'll be a quickie.
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So if your guy is lying beside you, wake him up for a quickie.
—Cosmopolitan, 23 Mar. 2008
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And a few quickies … Wentz had a catch with Jeffery during team drills.
—Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
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Their quickie's cut short, so Dexter resumes his trip into town.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2021
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That sadly includes not telling his parents about their quickie wedding.
—Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
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Show your proof of vaccination and receive a free extra quickie game card.
—Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 1 June 2022
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Try sipping ginger tea or making a gingery salad dressing for a quickie health boost.
—Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2020
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What was a glossy finish has been beaten down to dullness by quickie carwashes, rough roads, and nasty weather?
—Jack Keebler, Car and Driver, 6 May 2022
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Nevada later filled the gap, becoming known for quickie divorces.
—Barbara Spindel, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
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Waiting for the reception desk to be unmanned, then grabbing a key card for an illicit quickie with her lover.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
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Of course, Lifetime already weighed in with its own quickie movie about the topic, but that only scratched the surface.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 16 Mar. 2021
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There he was promoted to director and tasked with cranking out low-budget quickies for the bottom half of double bills.
—Dennis Lim, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017
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His quickie book proclaiming victory while his state’s ragged response was still unfolding.
—WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
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Websites with quickie value estimators aren’t the way to determine the value of your home.
—Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
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The Red Sox coaches had to call their minor league counterparts to get quickie scouting reports.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
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Couples have found the quickie ceremonies to be a point of stability with so much uncertainty.
—Kristen Bateman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
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The rush-rush allows secret last-minute deals and opens holes for lobbyists to sneak in last-moment quickie amendments that make their corporate clients all too happy.
—Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 3 June 2021
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But a quickie tour found few accepting visitors, especially those of Democrats.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2021
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There’s a quickie option at Walmart, and the elevated collection.
—Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 23 June 2021
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Pence's spokesman, Devin O'Malley, also rejected the quickie withdrawal claim made by the governor.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2020
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Later, came Emily Mariko's viral salmon rice bowl, a quickie, microwavable concoction that includes a single ice cube for moisture.
—Vogue, 22 Dec. 2021
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Set in the late 1950s at a ranch house in Reno where women wait to finalize quickie divorces, the movie is full of characters from all walks of life looking for a fresh start.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2020
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After performing her miracle, Amelia, high off her success, hopped into the MRI machine for a quickie.
—Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 29 Sep. 2017
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Also, Jalal sometimes stops off for a quickie with his younger mistress (Shaden Kanboura), a secret Waleed now feels complicit keeping.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2022
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If all that is too ambitious for the summer, the networks could get the folks who do Hallmark and Lifetime telepics to churn out some cost-effective pulp fiction or quickie biopics for the summer.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 July 2021
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Babe comes up with a quickie childhood backstory about falling off Boo Radley's tree in Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 June 2022
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Your average 3,000-mile quickie-lube sticker gives you a general suggestion of when to change your oil based on a really severe maintenance schedule.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2020
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To wit, this week, The Class by Taryn Toomey is offering quickie 15-minute classes focused on movement and breath through their virtual studio.
—Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2020
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That’s one of his first big risks — the other being a backroom quickie with his married childhood friend, Rachel (Odessa A’zion, who perfectly matches pitch with Chalamet).
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 25 Dec. 2025
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Having learned his trade making low-budget quickies for Roger Corman, Demme has always celebrated American junk culture.
—Patrick Goldstein, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2017
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