Illustration: In a home kitchen, a freshly heated mochi is puffing dramatically on a small wire grill. Its center has ballooned upward into a thin, rounded dome while the edges remain flat, and the swollen surface is still stretching.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

みるみる

mirumiru

rapidly, before one’s eyes

Example sentences

小規模しょうきぼの森林火災しんりんかさいはみるみる広ひろがり大火災だいかさいとなった。
A small forest fire quickly spread and became a huge conflagration.
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水みずは見みる見みるうちに橋はしげたのところまで達たっした。
The water came up to the bridge girder in a second.
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オーナーたちは新あたらしいレストランのおかげで見みる見みるうちに大金たいきんをかせいでいた。
The new restaurant was making the owners money hand over fist.
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