shortly
621
1.0
- adverb
- /ˈʃɔrtli/
:
pronto
- Please, continue to hold and we will be with you shortly.
- begin shortly
- return shortly
- shortly afterward
We will put that shortly for the next version.
- We will put that shortly for the next version.
- His wife dies shortly before he himself dies.
- I'll be leaving here shortly and coming to hang.
- I'm like, wow, So shortly after that, I quit smoking weed.
- I'll have a URL for you shortly and then Patreon backers.
- And he joined Martin Luther King shortly after the bus boycott began.
- So at the latest, shortly before you die, I would hope.
- The second would be high muscle strength followed shortly by high muscle mass.
- So MIT actually stopped using them shortly after my headache experience.
- And then her husband got cancer shortly after that happened.
- His dad was running Dalton shortly before Epstein got hired there.
- Now, my brownie career came off the rails shortly after that.
- Of course, I got this shortly after I got the kitchen utensils.
- And he approached me at that point or shortly after that point.
- And we will start to see that very shortly as the shootings keep continuing.
- And you know, shortly thereafter I started getting brand deals.
- And he learned shortly after that she was dead.
- We will be back shortly at Startalk Radio.
- This happened shortly after Lucia and Raul's talk.
- You know, you started becoming rebellious a little shortly after that.
Examples
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Mary will be back shortly.
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Outbound flights will resume shortly.
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I'll be leaving here shortly and coming to hang.
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We're going to be making the announcement shortly.
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Fellow delegates, our candidate is in the press room and will be joining us shortly.
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You'll begin to see the full picture shortly.
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He'll be back shortly.
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An agent will be in here shortly to fill you in on all the details.
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Please, continue to hold and we will be with you shortly.
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Mary will be back shortly.
Synonyms
98
2.1
Without delay or at the planned time
30
3.6
In a very short time
1
8.1
Happening fairly soon but not at a set time
Antonyms
How Soon
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shortly comes from the old English word short, which means 'not long'. A helpful way to remember the 'soon' sense is to think 'in a short time', so if something will happen shortly it will happen 'soon'.