(adv.) In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise.
(adv.) Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.
(adv.) Promptly; quickly; easily.
(adv.) Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.
(a.) Speedy; quick.
Example Sentences:
(1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(5) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
(6) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(7) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(8) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
(9) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(10) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(11) These cycles of treatment were repeated as soon as the hematologic restoration was complete.
(12) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(13) Noradrenaline turnover and metabolism are altered soon after imposing increased workload on heart.
(14) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
(15) Reinduction chemotherapy was given as soon as relapse was diagnosed in the marrow.
(16) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(17) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
(18) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
(19) Clinical trials in head injury will begin soon in selected centers in the United States.
(20) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
Swoon
Definition:
(v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
(n.) A fainting fit; syncope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises.
(2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
(3) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
(4) I don’t know if it has to do with his stoic demeanor as he sat behind President Obama during a State of the Union, or those baby-blue eyes all over the news on Tuesday, as he announced that he wasn’t running for president this year, citing his faith in the political process ( swoon ).
(5) Some critics have sneered that Theodore, who writes letters for a living, can't actually construct a sentence, but that, surely is the point: there is no true emotion in this modern world, and it seems unlikely that Jonze would expect anyone to swoon at Theodore's attempt at a love letter which includes the sentence, "The world is on my shitlist."
(6) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
(7) Where F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 source novel gave us the world in a soap bubble, weightless and gorgeous, Luhrmann's Gatsby is more akin to a mirrorball, a spinning, fractured dazzle of wild revels and swooning courtships.
(8) Before Swoon, he'd already made a name for himself as the director of They Are Lost to Vision Altogether, a superior piece of Aids agit-prop shaped by his experiences as an activist.
(9) But instead of swooning at these facts, Okoye is modest, stating only that he cares for the event and is determined to raise its profile.
(10) We were still swooning at her brio when rioting broke out across Britain and she made headlines again, calling for Facebook and Twitter to be closed down during civil unrest .
(11) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
(12) It's why John Wesley was able to garner great crowds in his open-air meetings in late 18th-century England: vast, ecstatic audiences which even frightened him with their swooning, groaning, swaying paroxysm, a "contrary vision" and a counter-revolution, as EP Thompson wrote, against the shackles of industrialisation and enclosed lands.
(13) Since then, the Red Sox have gone through a lot of turmoil (the injury-plagued 2010 season, the disastrous September swoon in 2011, everything that Bobby Valentine did in 2012).
(14) So, as others are doing in this, the year of the bush, I decided it was time to stop swooning, and wake up.
(15) Because we swooned over the idea of the United States of Europe, hoping that people would forget that we're Germans … We felt liberated at the idea of being able to be Europeans.
(16) Frazier deservedly won the decision – but the fact that Ali somehow gathered himself to his feet and attempted to fight back not only had the fans round the world swooning at the heroism, but it gave notice of the added, and unconsidered, ingredient that would embrace Ali for the rest of his life.
(17) Equally bold was Kalin's Swoon, which retold the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the notorious gay child-killers whose murder of a young boy had already inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion.
(18) It’s a glorious, swooning concoction, but forces you to confront one of singing’s great perils – the risk of ridicule.
(20) Before the internet, when the shroud of celebrity mystique was easier to maintain and nobody could tweet about Bill Cosby, fans felt less complicit in continuing to swoon over and patronize icons who were rumored to have done heinous things.