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How to use in a trice in a sentence

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As before, the facilitator grasped my objection in a trice, and even though I sense that she's inclined to side with the material, she gets it.
Of course, the first silly fly to come anywhere close was now snapped up in a trice.
England know the French can turn a game in a trice even when facing a seemingly desperate deficit.
The moment the ever-ready police personnel on duty got the order, they were on the door of my quarter in a trice.
It was a fast, efficient kill and any suffering would have been over in a trice.
Pipes, though a little disconcerted, far from being disabled by the blow, in a trice retorted the compliment with his truncheon.
With this amazing knife, it is easy to thinly slice vegetables, in a trice and as skilfully as any professional chef!
What's more, they are endowed with a powerful fan allowing them to double the capacity of their heating element in a trice.
The driver got out in a trice, and others jumped over to help the girl up.
You can create a presentation counter in combination with Table Top in a trice.
Educational establishments have learned from their own experiences with computer viruses, which can destroy a month's work in a trice.
Why I know at least half-a-dozen who'd file complaints in a trice.
It can climb up and down buildings in a trice, comfortably and without causing dizziness.
It runs extremely quickly and can appear to vanish in a trice.
The raspberries have had a good flavour but turn to jam in a trice.
Needless to say you have it open in a trice.
At literary parties, tiddly in a trice, she could be the life and soul, mistaking the queen for Vera Lynn loudly and to her face, or inviting men to join her under the piano.
But such headlines can change their target in a trice.
Snapshots' make it very easy to reset the server environment in a trice.
Switch-over from one energy mode to another in a trice!
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Examples from Classical Literature
Down went one pitcherful of water after another, and in a trice both the teacher and the hired man were thoroughly drenched.
But now the hounds were too quick, and in a trice they had the cougar surrounded.
He was back again in a trice, a flask in one hand, a soda siphon in the other, and a small glass balanced on his thumb.
She reached the door before he could stop her, and in a trice she was out in the gallery.
So they mounted their horses and were gone in a trice, galloping to their own camp.
Both tackles were hooked in a trice, and the three men, deftly timing the roll, made a simultaneous leap aboard the schooner.
She lashed her horses on and they flew forward nothing loth, till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling.
Almost in a trice he was back, both slippers in his mouth, which he deposited at the steward's feet.
Out of her carriage jumped the lady in a trice, and ran into the smithy.
And in a trice he was off, as Sally supposed, on his mission.
And you can prove that in a trice by charting it on the same old basis.
Of course, I could have struggled away from him and freed my hand or gotten my mouth clear so that I might cry an alarm, but in a trice Yellow Handkerchief was on top of me.
I had not time to be afraid, but as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice upon one side, and missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled headlong down the slope.
In a trice we had galloped past the fortress, through the village, and had ridden into the gorge.
In a trice they were ready and the ladies, wrapped in their cloaks, were in the coach.
In a trice half a dozen girls have left their spooling and cluster around me.
In a trice the Phoenix had pounced on the leprechaun and pinned him to the ground.
In a trice there were found good folks to dig the grave and fashion the coffin.
In a trice his huge bulk was safely ensconced in the adjoining one.
In a trice Charboneau was back at the skillets, dishing up the dinner.
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