How to use "quick" in a sentence

But this time, I just called a quick goodbye to my housemates - Brian, Joe, and Leona

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood

Leblanc, but the old man was too quick for him

Then Valjean frowned and, after a quick calculation, decided that Marius was probably still alive

At first, I think that maybe I am quick enough, but then I hear the snap of the gun and feel the explosion in my back.

"And you're Marian," he says to me, the only woman, and he gives me a quick smile.

"You're quick: the air conditioning only broke this morning."

The interview room is cold, the lights weak and grey, but he offers the woman a seat and hopes that this will be quick.

He just needs to be quick

You know you should call the police, but you need to do something more, something quick.

He is almost quick enough, but the knife still cuts him, and he screams and falls to the floor

"Shhh!" In one quick, smooth movement, the woman pushed the note between Sala's fingers, nodded at her, and then set off rapidly toward the walkway

"So, you were right." Wena sounded disappointed, and Sala risked a quick look at her

Be quick.'

Maxim was talking in quick, short sentences

He shifted from foot to foot as he talked about Magyck! Turned this way and that, gestured expansively with his quick, gem-speckled hands, virtually doing a jig.

His dark eyes were deeply set, quick, marked by intelligence and amusement.

The cat pounced, missed its prey, stumbled, scared itself, and flashed lightning-quick into another yard.

He thought of her slightly crooked smile, her eyes as quick and deep and cool and blue as a pure mountain stream

He risked a quick look, shifting his attention from the road, but there wasn't enough light in the car for him to see what she held

"I thought we might make some quick allies out of those other parents

Elliot stood, extending the pistol in both hands, and snapped off three quick rounds

"The next time I read a story in the newspaper about some guy, who says he was picked up in a flying saucer and taken on a tour of the universe, I won't be so quick to laugh

Instead, I was looking at a quick-breathing, desperate creature

And young men are so hot-headed and so quick to believe the worst.'

But Griselda was too quick for me

At the sight of these strange, quick and terrible creatures, the crowd near the water's edge seemed for a moment to be totally shocked

The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, the story said

And then a quick movement of the steamboat (which had turned to avoid being hit) threw him off the seat on which he had been standing

Here too, there were signs of quick departure

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