Hasten

//ˈheɪ.sn̩//

"Hasten" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I must hasten to add that I do not mean to blame him.

Hasten, my lads!

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

Hasten slowly.

A purse of three thousand drachmas, however, was cast ashore, and now lies covered with seaweed near a dead dolphin, the stench of which is so offensive, that all who pass that way hasten by it as fast as they can.

Even now, commercial ships use "the trades" and the currents the winds produce to hasten their oceanic voyages.

"While running rivers hasten to the main, / while yon pure ether feeds the stars with light, / while shadows round the hill-slopes wax and wane, / thy fame, wher'er I go, thy praises shall remain."

Now I must hasten to court; some other time I will tell you much more foolish things even than these.

He was called upon, but refused at first to give it up, till the shrieks became so hideous that he was compelled to hasten with others to learn the cause.

Hasten after him—stop him—beg him to speak to me for a single moment.

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I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.

Hamlet: Bid the players make haste. Will you two help to hasten them?

A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.

The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

[…]and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.

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