"promptly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There, Diaghilev invited him to join the Ballets Russes where Balanchine was promptly promoted to ballet-master and given the freedom to choreograph.
- He arrived on 12 April 1809 and was promptly promoted to post-captain the following day.
- On his return to Japan in 1932, he was promptly promoted to lieutenant general.
- Trying and failing, or suffering a gross injustice, on the other hand, was: Zelda Fitzgerald, for years little more than a dizzy flapper in the annals of literary history, was promptly promoted to feminist heroine when it came out that her husband had pilfered shamelessly from her letters and diaries.
- John Jr. was promptly promoted to capo.
- The brutal Schorner, a Fuhrer favorite and among the least talented of the German generals, was promptly promoted to Field Marshal.
- In 1940 he was sent to the Philippines where he was promptly promoted to Brigadier General; he served as General Douglas MacArthur's second highest ranking ground officer, after General Jonathan Wainwright.
- York was promptly promoted to Sergeant and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism.
- After becoming the Department of Correction's director of investigations in 1994, he was promptly promoted to first deputy commissioner, and in 1998 became commissioner.
- When the editor of the Herald, John West, died in December 1873, Garran was promptly promoted.
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