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"precipitately" Definitions
  1. very quickly or suddenly and usually without enough care and thought
"precipitately" Synonyms
headlong hastily hurriedly rashly hotfoot precipitously cursorily pell-mell on the spur of the moment recklessly impulsively heedlessly carelessly impetuously imprudently thoughtlessly incautiously overhastily foolhardily unthinkingly early prematurely beforehand betimes soon inopportunely precociously unseasonably preterm untimely in advance too early too soon ahead of schedule ahead of time before one's time in good time on short notice helter-skelter posthaste apace cluttered post-haste hurry-scurry lickety-split at full tilt in a hurry like mad at a lick like the wind as fast as possible like a bomb like the clappers abruptly suddenly unexpectedly unanticipatedly short unceremonially unceremoniously all at once all of a sudden rapidly swiftly quickly sharply fastly acutely steeply precipitantly urgently insistently compellingly eagerly earnestly frantically vigorously anxious beseechingly emotionally enthusiastically excitedly gravely imperiously imploringly importunately persistently persuasively presumptuously arrogantly boldly forwardly audaciously overconfidently insolently brazenly bumptiously cheekily egotistically familiarly freely freshly overboldly overweeningly pertly rudely assumptively cocksurely tactlessly gracelessly indelicately unsophisticatedly boorishly clumsily coarsely gauchely indiscreetly ineptly maladroitly roughly unsubtly tastelessly uncouthly awkwardly brashly bunglingly callously summarily concisely briefly compactly compendiously succinctly pithily tersely abridgedly abbreviatedly laconically shortly synoptically aphoristically apothegmatically compressedly curtly elliptically epigrammatically passionately intensely ardently fervently fervidly flamingly vehemently allegiantly animatedly assiduously committedly dedicatedly fierily steadfastly strongly zealously More

43 Sentences With "precipitately"

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For a number of reasons, including increased fishery regulations, the number of fishermen in California has precipitately declined over the years.
Concert organizers welcome the super-recognizers; Smith noted that thefts of mobile phones drop precipitately whenever the team works an event.
When his health began to fail precipitately, he asked her to promise to complete the book if he died before finishing it.
On China, the good news is that the authorities have not allowed the currency to fall precipitately and the figures suggests the economy is slowing gently, rather than abruptly.
What she found there is that as the money available for conventional diplomacy and development aid precipitately declines, so the armed forces with their relatively inexhaustible resources are called upon to fill the gap.
There are some Brexit-related reasons for this: the pound has fallen precipitately against the euro; and Britain is now often perceived to be "a xenophobic and unfriendly country", says John Hardman, a director of one recruiting agency, HOPS Labour Solutions.
It is a chief reason they are anxious about precipitately moving forward with any effort to undo the Obama administration's program to grant relief to the so-called Dreamers: tens of thousands of younger unauthorized immigrants who participate in a program that allows them to remain in the United States, attend school, receive driver's licenses and hold jobs without the threat of deportation.
Based on that experience, Lapine wrote and directed a movie, "Custody," starring Viola Davis, as Judge Martha Schulman, a family-court judge with family problems of her own, and Catalina Sandino Moreno, as Sara Diaz, a single mother of two whose children are taken from her precipitately, after an accident in her home leads to the authorities' being notified of possible violence.
388–390 The family felt that Clark was acting precipitately in marrying someone he had not known well for very long, but the wedding took place in November 1977. Clark and his second wife remained together until his death.
Both battalions returned to Harstad to reform and to be re-equipped before setting out again for Bodø.Wilkinson and Astley 1993, pp. 54–55 As the Germans advanced northward from a railhead at Mosjøen, the garrison of Mo i Rana (a mixed force based on the 1st Scots Guards) withdrew on 18 May, too precipitately in Gubbins's opinion.
His party consisted of a sergeant and twelve men. With a few of them he gained the summit in rear of the enemy's position just at daybreak. Finding themselves unexpectedly assailed from that quarter, the French precipitately retreated, leaving a brass field-gun in the captors' hands, but not until after the officer in command had been wounded by Clay.
Entrepreneur and mother of two children, Fabienne, a beautiful 45-year-old woman, learns that she is precociously diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She precipitately leaves her husband Patrick to follow the wanderings of Paul, a lost man who lives of small thefts. A roadtrip of two days begins through Camargue. Like sand in her hand, Fabienne feels her life slipping away.
During the reign of Kamalavarman, the Saffarid rule weakened precipitately and ultimately Sistan became a part of the Samanid Empire. The disorder generally prevailed and the control of Zabulistan changed hands frequently. Taking advantage of the situation, the Shahis stepped up activities on their western frontier. The result was the emergence of a small Hindu power at Ghazni, supported by the Shahis.
On 18 May, Gubbins arrived, bringing orders from Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck, the recently appointed commander of the North Western Expeditionary Force, that Mo i Rana was to be firmly defended. Trappes-Lomax however insisted that the position was untenable. Since no reinforcements were available, Gubbins reluctantly concurred. "Trappescol" withdrew "precipitately" in Gubbins's words, abandoning most stores and equipment intact.
Then at the end of March, after less than five months in the colony, he returned to London. There he continued his vendettas with such vehemence that he was summoned to appear in court, charged with uttering threats against the Canterbury Association's Land Agent, John Robert Godley. And then, just as precipitately, he returned to New Zealand. He arrived in Nelson, New Zealand in 1854, bringing with him two red deer.
"Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket",Hendrickson, Robert (2000). The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms. Infobase Publishing. p. 77. . "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket" are variations on an American allegorical locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately.
12 Prisoners informed Armstrong that a party of 24 men had left the day before in advance of another planned raid. This news caused Armstrong some concern over the fate of Lieutenant Hogg, so he precipitately ordered a withdrawal. They were met after several miles by a mortally wounded Hogg, who reported that his force had been attacked by a larger Indian force. Some of his men had immediately fled, and most of the rest had been killed.
During her time in England, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, then Prime Minister Palmerston's attorney general, proposed marriage to her; Queen Victoria was strongly in favor of this match, as it would keep Lane in England. Lane considered the advantages of a number of bachelors. Her uncle cautioned Lane against "rushing precipitately into matrimonial connections" as his ward found her potential suitors "pleasant but dreadfully troublesome". Lane eventually married Baltimore banker Henry Elliott Johnston at the age of 36.
While the majority at the council wanted to feast or dance, Glenstorm supports Caspian in overruling this majority and holding a council of war at once. When Doctor Cornelius appears and reveals that Miraz's army is on Caspian's trail, Glenstorm also advises on strategy. Nikabrik asks whether Caspian's plan is battle or flight, and Caspian says, "I don't like the idea of running away." However, Glenstorm shows his wisdom in not wishing to rush precipitately into battle.
These disasters compelled the retreat of the whole Silesian army, and Napoleon, leaving detachments with marshals Mortier and Marmont to deal with them, hurried back to Troyes. Napoleon with his main body struck at the flank of Schwarzenberg's Austrian army, which had meanwhile begun its leisurely advance, and again at Mormant (17 February), Montereau (18 February) and Méry-sur-Seine (21 February). He inflicted such heavy punishment upon his adversaries that they fell back precipitately to Bar-sur-Aube.
As the line was rolled up on both wings, each regimental commander in succession pulled his unit back to escape being slaughtered. General Branch ordered a retreat, which soon became a rout. The fleeing North Carolinians dashed across the bridge over the Trent River into New Bern, then burned the bridge so precipitately that some of their compatriots were left behind and were captured. They also burned a fire raft in the river, which soon drifted against the railroad bridge and destroyed it.
Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no marketable skill, marry and try to live with Natale's parents and other relatives in one apartment, what might happen in the poorest classes in Rome about 1950. After a quarrel Natale and Luisa precipitately leave without a place to live. The remainder of the film is devoted to their finding housing. The solution is building a one-room brick dwelling as a squat on unused railway land on the outskirts of Rome.
However, on 5 July 1700, he precipitately left Whitehaven without his father's permission and returned to London. Three months later, he was imprisoned by his creditors in London, and was not released until 1702, when William Lancaster, the future provost of Queen's College, Oxford, paid his debts. This final episode served to exhaust the patience of his father, Sir John. When he fell ill in February 1701, he made out a will leaving the Lowther estates to James, in lieu of Christopher.
Cottagers from Regina and other southern Saskatchewan communities used Fort Qu'Appelle as a base from which to explore the scenic and historic river valley, purchase hardware and groceries and contract services; the town also benefited urban drift as farms and other towns steadily depopulated. Highway 35 between Qu'Appelle and Fort Qu'Appelle This process was precipitately accelerated in the early 1960s. Highway 35 had reached Fort Qu'Appelle by branching off the Trans-Canada Highway at the once-significant town Qu'Appelle and somewhat laboriously proceeding into the Qu'Appelle Valley by winding through an un-occupied coulee.
The artisans who arrived in 1631 counted Cioli, a sculptor and Fagni an engineer.Kfoury 1999, p. 20 These artisans who introduced elements of Italian architecture, including the bifora had to leave Lebanon precipitately in 1633 when Fakhr al-Din was deposed. One of the earliest known monuments to hold a variant of the bifore which would be known locally as mandaloun was Burj al- Kashaf, a watch tower built by Fakhr al-Din at the outskirts of the walled city of Beirut; the tower was destroyed in 1870.
This time, as the three warships came into the bay at dawn, Spanish soldiers clustered about the blockhouse on the hill known today as McCalla Hill. The blockhouse and the village were speedily cleared by fire from Marbleheads six-pounder gun, along with a single shell. The Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval came down the channel from Caimanera to meet the attack but retired precipitately on discovering the caliber of guns against them. The one cannon of the fort on Cayo del Toro opened fire on Marblehead without effect until it was silenced.
There the British, suffering under the extreme heat of the day, ended the pursuit, and Stirling was able to fall back in good order toward the post at Middlebrook. A messenger had alerted Washington to Howe's proximity, prompting Washington to precipitately withdraw to a more secure position further in the hills. Later in the day, Howe arrived to inspect Washington's lines and adjudged them too strong to attack. Because Stirling's resistance may have provided Washington with enough time to manage his withdrawal to more secure ground, the battle is considered a strategic victory for the Americans.
In the British Official History Lionel Ellis wrote that the battle showed "how easily misunderstandings may arise between allies in such a confused situation". The 20th Guards Brigade had retired towards the outskirts of Boulogne on the morning of 23 May, after resisting attacks from all sides from Lanquetot signalled that the British were withdrawing precipitately, perhaps unaware of how fiercely the withdrawal was being contested. Communication between Fox- Pitt and the French headquarters at the Citadel was cut by the German advance between the Citadel and the Guards positions in the lower town. Fox-Pitt received orders to evacuate British troops but not the French.
Advancing at the foot of the ridge, it was ordered by Matthies to occupy the Glass house and its surroundings to the west of Tunnel Hill on the northern end of the ridge. When the brigade advanced up the hill, the regiment deployed in a skirmish line on the right flank of the brigade. Struck from the left and rear by the countercharge of Granbury's Texas Brigade that routed the brigade, the regiment collapsed and precipitately retreated from the slopes of the hill under heavy fire. Stragglers from the 5th Iowa fled towards the Glass house, preventing the remnants of the 73rd Pennsylvania there from changing front against the Texans.
He himself behaved so valiantly, that he ought to be much honoured and respected. This battle was fought with great perils: many were slain, wounded, and put to flight . Once the elite Gascon mercenaries flanked the vanguard of Henry's army commanded by du Guesclin, it was quickly crushed and most of the main body that did not even participate in the battle fled precipitately toward the bridge of Najera as they were being attacked from two fronts, ignoring the harangues of Henry. The Aragonese cavalry of Jaime IV of Majorca chased and killed most of them, as they got trapped in their retreat by the great river and the narrow bridge.
Doaksville is a former settlement, now a ghost town, located in present-day Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was founded between 1824 and 1831, by people of the Choctaw Indian tribe who were forced to leave their homes in the Southeastern United States and relocate in an area designated in for their resettlement in Indian Territory. The community was named for Josiah Stuart Doak, co-owner of the local trading post. The town flourished until the U.S. Army abandoned nearby Fort Towson in 1854, though it remained as the Choctaw capital until 1859, then declined precipitately after being bypassed by a new railroad in 1870.
Posey's men > encamped here The circumstances connected with the attack on Maj. Dement's > Bat[talion].are as well as I can gather substantially these Yesterday > morning the Maj. ordered out a small party for the purpose of examining a > trail leading to the Mississippi The detachment had not proceeded more than > half a mile when they discovered a few Indians at a small distance from them > the men rushed on them in a disorderly manner till they came to the main > body of Indians where they were secreted in a thicket on seeing the Indians > the men wheeled & fled precipitately & all the efforts of Maj.
" Eventually, Pauline was convinced by her fellow dirty protesters to cease her role in the protest to save her dangerously failing health. According to secret government papers released thirty years later, > "There has been some talk, at least among the campaign organisers, of the > women in Armagh joining the hunger strike. In fact the [IRA] leadership have > never shown much interest in what the women are up to but have left them to > the feminist movement. However, they may consider it worth bringing in the > women at a later stage and it is also quite possible that the women will > take the decision themselves precipitately.
21st Illinois monument in the Viniard Field During the Battle of Chickamauga, by 2:00 p.m. on 19 September, Carlin placed the 21st Illinois in reserve 100 yards behind the 81st Indiana, which held positions in the eastern part of the Viniard Field. As Carlin was about to begin the brigade advance, division commander Jefferson C. Davis detached the 21st Illinois to support Hans Heg's brigade, although Major James Calloway of the regiment was sent by Carlin to take command of the 81st Indiana. When attacked by Benning's Georgia Brigade while attempting to return to its former positions, the regiment precipitately retreated, losing its colors when its color sergeant was killed holding them.
He designated Peñaranda as his assistant. Whatever new surprises General Lukban had mapped out against the American war machine, all came to naught with his capture by an American special force in his mountain hideout in Samar on February 19, 1902. Lukban's capture plus the earlier capitulation of General Miguel Malvar, the last Filipino revolutionary general to surrender, were the two major setbacks that precipitately turned the Leyte revolutionary command into the lone holdout in the Filipino nation's resistance against the American occupation. Impartial foreign observers at the time were appalled by the savagery of the mismatch and had estimated that the lives of more than million Filipinos had been wasted at the hands of the US military.
Manius pursued them as far as Scarphia, killing and taking > prisoners. Returning thence he plundered the king's camp, and by merely > showing himself drove out the Aetolians who had broken into the Roman camp > during his absence. :[§20] The Romans lost about 200 in the battle and the > pursuit; Antiochus about 10,000, including prisoners. The king himself, at > the first sign of defeat, fled precipitately with 500 horse as far as > Elateia, and from Elateia to Chalcis, and thence to Ephesus with his bride > Euboea, as he called her, with his ships; but not all of them, for the Roman > admiral made an attack upon some that were bringing supplies, and sunk them.
The French scheme to invade Britain was arranged in combination with the Jacobite leaders, and soldiers were to be transported from Dunkirk. In February 1744, a French fleet of twenty sail of the line entered the English Channel under Jacques Aymar, comte de Roquefeuil, before the British force under Admiral John Norris was ready to oppose him. But the French force was ill-equipped, the admiral was nervous, his mind dwelt on all the misfortunes which might possibly happen, and the weather was bad. De Roquefeuil came up almost as far as The Downs, where he learnt that Sir John Norris was at hand with twenty-five sail of the line, and thereupon precipitately retreated.
Ramon Llull The Vandals under Genseric conquered the Islands sometime between 461 and 468 during their war on the Roman Empire. However, in late 533 or early 534, following the Battle of Ad Decimum, the troops of Belisarius reestablished control of the islands for the Romans. Imperial power receded precipitately in the western Mediterranean after the fall of Carthage and the Exarchate of Africa to the Umayyad Caliphate in 698, and in 707 the islands submitted to the terms of an Umayyad fleet, which allowed the residents to maintain their traditions and religion as well as a high degree of autonomy. Now nominally both Byzantine and Umayyad, the de facto independent islands occupied a strategic and profitable grey area between the competing religions and kingdoms of the western Mediterranean.
Ward, at the head of five hundred men, attacked the city without artillery support. The defenders, seeing the strange attire, military skill and foreign leadership of their own countrymen, wavered and “were filled with dismay and fled precipitately” Carr, 181 In February, again facing Taiping forces moving near his training area, Ward took five hundred troops and in joint operations with local Imperial commanders, drove the rebels from Yinchipeng, Chenshan, Tianmashan, and other areas around Songjiang.Smith, 40 In the course of these actions against superior numbers, thousands of Taiping were killed or wounded, while Ward himself suffered five wounds, including the loss of a finger to a musket ball.Carr, 181 Li Xiucheng, enraged at this foreign irritant, had a force of 20,000 attack Songjiang, defended only by Ward's force of about 1,500 men.
For a short while, after the alliance between France and Spain had been concluded, in 1795, Lángara co- operated with Napoleon during his Italian campaign of 1796, and sailed from Cádiz with nineteen ships of the line and ten frigates, escaped past Rear- Admiral Mann's division which Jervis had posted to watch Cádiz and passed into the Mediterranean Sea. He collected seven ships at Cartagena and cruised as far as Corsica, but did not attack the British squadron lying in San Fiorenzo Bay. He proceeded to Toulon, where the combined Franco-Spanish fleet, totalling 38 ships of the line, heavily outnumbered the British Mediterranean squadron which had lost a third of its strength when Mann fled precipitately back to the English Channel. This successful junction between the French and Spanish navies caused orders to be sent from London ordering the evacuation Corsica and the Mediterranean Sea.
After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, on 22 June 1941, Borisov led the corps as part of the 13th Army of the Western Front in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk, utilizing the fortifications of Minsk Fortified Region, against the German 3rd Panzer Group in the Lida region. His corps attacked piecemeal and retreated precipitately towards Minsk. In late June the 3rd and 2nd Panzer Groups broke through the Western Front defenses on the flanks of the corps, encircling the 3rd, 10th, and 13th Armies in a pocket west of Minsk. While riding on a tank and directing the retreat of the 37th Rifle Division during the breakout attempt of the corps on 30 June, Borisov was killed by a German shell during a bombardment in the area of the town of Radoshkovichi, and was buried in the town cemetery.
Some time after the conclusion of the battle, the sailors of his fleet became ravaged by cholera outbreak which was raging on in mainland Portugal, with an appalling loss of life among the crews of his fleet resulting in more deaths from cholera amongst his men than from combat against the Miguelite fleet. Despite this, Napier was able to bring the Liberal fleet and the captured Miguelite prizes safely into Lisbon, which the Miguelites had precipitately abandoned after being defeated by Terceira’s army advancing from the south at the Battle of Almada, a major Liberal victory. On 6 July, receiving news of the victory, Dom Pedro named Napier as Viscount Cape St Vincent in the peerage of Portugal. Napier visited Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker who happened to be in the vicinity of the Tagus, and was received according to his Portuguese rank as an Admiral.
Paget's first medical publication was "Cases of Morbid Rhythmical Movements" in the Edinburgh Medical Journal for 1847. In the Medical Times and Gazette of 24 February 1855 he published "Case of involuntary Tendency to Fall precipitately forwards", and in the British Medical Journal for 22 September 1860 "Case of Epilepsy with some Uncommon Symptoms"—these were peculiar automatic bursts of laughter; 10 December 1887, "Notes on an Exceptional Case of Aphasia" of a left-handed man who, having paralysis of the left side, had aphasia; 5 January 1889, "Remarks on a Case of Alternate Partial Anæsthesia". In The Lancet for 11 and 18 April 1868 he published "Lecture on Gastric Epilepsy", and on 4 July 1885 "Case of Remarkable Risings and Fallings of the Bodily Temperature". Paget in 1849 printed a letter of William Harvey to Samuel Ward, master of Sidney Sussex College, and in 1850 a Notice of an Unpublished Manuscript of Harvey.

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