“Not so with e-mail, which combines instant delivery with minimal effort.”

“Japanese instant snack noodles hope to dump their junk food status and soar to the higher gastronomical rank of space cuisine.”

“… we should be more concerned with instant dangers than with those in the far-off future.”

“All of this, ever just below the surface of my thought, flashed across my mind in the instant between my question and his answer.”

“Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.”