How to use "immediately" in a sentence

One thing is immediately clear: I can't go back.

The movement stops almost immediately

He wanted to check immediately, but he had to leave for Australia that day

Steve immediately arranged for a rescue team to join the police and help in the search

He immediately started talking fast in a language that I couldn't understand, but he took me somewhere - past all the boats and the beach

A lot of army people were there, and they immediately started shaking my hand and telling me that I was a brave man and that they were pleased to meet me.

This time, however, he did not catch it and it rolled along the ground towards Valjean, who immediately put his foot on it.

When Fantine first arrived in Montreuil, she had immediately found work in a factory

The Thenardiers wrote her a frightening letter in which they told her that Cosette had no clothes, and that they needed ten francs immediately to buy her a new dress

Madeleine sent the Thenardiers 300 francs and told them to send Cosette to Montreuil immediately

When he had gone, the judge immediately allowed Champmathieu to leave the court a free man

He gazed into Fantine's eyes and knew immediately that she was dead.

'Times are very hard,' Mme Thenardier replied immediately

The next morning, Cosette opened her eyes and immediately started to get out of bed.

She left immediately, closing the door behind her.

Although Marius was a dreamer and not a man of action, he knew immediately that he had to save M

He immediately saw what he had to do

'We'll put a bandage on that wound immediately

The smell of tobacco and the handwriting on the envelope was so familiar that Marius immediately thought of the Jondrettes

He had tried without success to find the man who had saved his father's lite at Waterloo, and now the man had come to him! He immediately asked the servant to show the man in.

He produced a muddy piece of cloth and showed it to Marius, who immediately went pale and rose unsteadily to his feet

When Thenardier had left, unable to believe his good fortune, Marius ran to find Cosette and told her everything immediately.

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten

"Great," Sala replied immediately.

"Not immediately," said Sala

But then, a few weeks ago, she had begun to slip back into the dreadful condition in which she'd wallowed immediately after she'd received news of the accident

Then the new dreams began, and they were far worse than the dream that she'd had immediately after Danny had been killed.

"-so I want the locks changed immediately."

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

When Kennebeck informed Alexander of Elliot Stryker's request for an exhumation, the bureau chief responded immediately with extreme force

After long and arduous lobbying of the director, Alexander had at last been awarded this small jet; and immediately he put two full-time pilots, ex-military men, on the payroll of the Nevada bureau.

We immediately began working with him, trying to engineer an exact duplicate of the virus

In the event of accidental contamination, you immediately set off an alarm

The engine wouldn't turn over immediately.

'Uncle Elias went immediately to the secret room and took out a box which also had three Ks on it

'And why didn't you come to me immediately? Your enemies have had almost two days to make a plan

A traveller would be placed in a cabin at the station, the machine would be turned on, and the traveller would disappear and reappear almost immediately at the chosen receiving station.

Refusing even to look at his closed hand, I ordered him to release it immediately.

Yes, he remembered, he had found the fly by the kitchen window but had released it immediately as ordered.

But I suppose Colonel Protheroe wasn't there yet, because she came back almost immediately, and walked down to the studio.'

'And you left immediately? How long did it take you?'

The verdict was given almost immediately: Murder by Person or Persons Unknown.

I recognized him immediately as Miss Marple's nephew and I apologized

He turned immediately to Griselda and as they talked, I heard her say, 'Do you have any ideas about the murder, Mr West?'

And a search for it would begin immediately.

When I reached the lane, I immediately heard a familiar voice, 'Oh! Mr Clement

Her answer came immediately

Haydock's gentle opinions about criminals changed immediately

I heard it first from my newspaper boy at about a quarter to nine and I went to the common immediately.

At about six in the evening, as I had tea with my wife in the garden, I heard an explosion from the common, and immediately after that the sound of gunfire

I crawled out almost immediately and lay, my feet still in the water, under a bush

If I had really understood the meaning of all the things I had seen, I would have gone back to join my wife in Leatherhead immediately

The strength of the Martians worried me so much that I had decided to take my wife to the south coast, and leave the country with her immediately

Then came the sound of a gun and, almost immediately, other guns across the river, unseen because of the trees, began to fire

The fallen Martian used its voice, and immediately a second one answered it, appearing over the trees to the south

All of the second shells missed the Martian on the ground and, immediately.

We stood shocked by our danger, and if the Martian had been looking down we would have died immediately

I looked at my own house with a quick flash of hope that died immediately

'She didn't tell me she was going or say goodbye! I must go to her immediately!'

Miss Halcombe said, 'Walter, we must all go to London immediately! We're probably being followed!'

Because of our great love for her, Miss Halcombe and I had recognised her immediately, but the Count's letter had influenced Mr Fairlie, and even the servants at Limmeridge House had not recognised her.

I must act immediately.'

The Count read the note and immediately knew that I had won

When we arrived, Anne was immediately suspicious

Let us go immediately!"

Don't touch Lolita! Leave this house immediately!"