How To Use promptitude In A Sentence
- Amid the confusion the invaders did their work with grim promptitude. Times, Sunday Times
- The plaintiff had applied for judicial review with reasonable promptitude. Times, Sunday Times
- Some of Johnny's friends saw in this promptitude a high mark of respect and affection; others felt a haste, almost undue, to turn the new erection into a bulletin of "actualities"; and a few surmised that had the work not been done with promptitude it might have come to be done in a leisurely fashion that spelled neglect: if it were to be done, 't were well it were done quickly -- a formal token of regard checked off and disposed of. On the Stairs
- With a promptitude that was absolutely terrifying the two lines of red shirts began to draw together, voices growling bodingly, fists clinching, eyes narrowing with the reviving hatred of old contests. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
- Such was his flow of thoughts, and such his promptitude of language, that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his cursory sermons, but having adjusted the heads, and sketched out some particulars, trusted for success to his extemporary powers. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
- If he spent his time in splenetic atrabiliar reflections on his own misery, his ill usage by Nature, Fortune and other Foxes, and so forth; and had not courage, promptitude, practicality, and other suitable vulpine gifts and graces, he would catch no geese. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
- Such was his flow of thoughts, and such his promptitude of language, that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his cursory sermons, but, having adjusted the heads and sketched out some particulars, trusted for success to his extemporary powers. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
- a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude
- With commendable promptitude, he caught Harrison by the collar and held him firmly, while Agnes and Dotty recovered their balance.
- Confirmatory evidence of the extraordinary promptitude with which our satellite parts with heat already to some extent appropriated, was afforded by Professor Langley's bolometric observations at Allegheny of the partial eclipse of September 23, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
