shortly

1. 1.In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.

2. 2.In or after a short time; soon.

   • The past perfect progressive is used for actions and situations which had continued up to a past moment or shortly before it.
   • Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
   • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

3. 3.In few words.

   • We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.

4. 4.In an irritable ("short") manner.

   • "Stop interrupting me, will ya?" she said shortly.

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