8 sentences with 'shortly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shortly and other words derived from it.
• « In 1983, shortly before her fourth birthday, Sarah suffered a fall and had a brain hemorrhage. »
• « One night, shortly thereafter, I awoke in the wee hours of the morning and saw that Dorothy was not beside me. »
• « But shortly after production began there in 1910, the company could no longer meet the large number of orders, which had doubled in a year. »
• « Burroughs came to visit the Fords in Detroit shortly before Henry's birthday, and invited the couple to Massachusetts, to sip from the wellspring of American transcendentalism. »
• « Later, Henry would recall that, shortly before Christmas, as he walked through the factory with Edsel, his only son, who had just turned 20 and was starting work at the company, they came upon two dirty, beaten, sweaty men: they were trying to bash each other's heads open. »
• « Miraculously, shortly after that period of meditation ended, a tern landed on Eddie Rickenbacker's head. »
• « The brief but euphoric period of contact between them in Europe at that time and shortly after the war created the opinion that Russians and Americans were much alike. »