in a trice's Usage Examples:

If wrinkled through age, or bad dawbing the face is, 'Twill be smooth in a trice, as the best Venice glass is; All this, and much more (could I spare time.

known for his poetic style of commentary, often using phrases such as "in a trice" instead of common language.

 a mighty host of animal magnetizers sprung up in a trice; they swarmed throughout the length and breadth of the northern States.

speed and out the other end, occupies the outer edges of the village in a trice, in accordance with an agreed plan, and then gathers the whole population.

chakka varatti would be made in the backyard over a logfire and consumed in a trice, the richness of fruits, jaggery and ghee.

1640, Leonard Digges wrote: "let but Beatrice / And Benedick be seen, lo in a trice / The Cockpit galleries, boxes, all are full.

had not passed far, but with great speed and violence seized her, and in a trice, laying her across his knee, took up her Linnen, and lay'd so hard up-on.

Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel said, "Will Sergeant was superb, moving in a trice from squalls of angry sound to playing with such care and subtlety that.

A proper bird of paradise, Shot and flown thither in a trice.

own enemies" by staying fixed to the ground and how everything happened in a trice.

Śakkarakkōţţam, whose warriors were brave; Madura-maṇḍalam destroyed in a trice, the prosperous city of Nāmaṇaik-kōṇam with its dense groves.

But when something is going on around him, he is on his feet in a trice and ready to act.

powerful sense of a fractured world where well-meaning people can turn in a trice against outsiders, and unnerved people fear everything".

One's childhood love of sand and beaches disappeared in a trice.

Synonyms:

personal; in the flesh;

Antonyms:

impersonal; public; objective;