Apace

//əˈpeɪs//

"Apace" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Ill news comes apace.

Speculation is growing apace.

Ill weeds grow apace.

As bees in early summer swarm apace / through flowery fields, when forth from dale and dell / they lead the full-grown offspring of the race, / or with the liquid honey store each cell, / and make the teeming hive with nectarous sweets to swell. / These ease the comers of their loads, those drive / the drones afar. The busy work each plies, / and sweet with thyme and honey smells the hive.

The thaw is continuing apace. The sun has melted the frost from the windows.

Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.

Gallop apace, you fiery footed ſteedes, / Towards Phœbus lodging, ſuch a Wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the weſt, / And bring in Cloudie night immediately.

Ow faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre / Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in / Another Moon[…]

(To one, it is ten years of years. ... Yet now, and in this place, Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair Fell all about my face. ... Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves. The whole year sets apace.)

The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.

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Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.

On the three major railway systems of Ireland, changeover to diesel traction has continued apace during the past year.

Despite efforts to prevent it, officials say, the radicalisation of young Muslims living in Europe proceeds apace.

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