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Example sentences for "haste"

Lexicographically close words:
hassle; hassock; hassocks; hast; hasta; hasted; hastely; hasten; hastened; hasteneth
  1. No, I speak of a prodigal who did not go far, and who made haste to repent.

  2. You had better make haste about it, if you expect to keep me here," said Mr. Sparks, with a peculiar expression in his eye.

  3. Haste has an ideal, a distinct aim to be realized by the quickest, direct methods.

  4. Haste has a single compass upon which it relies for direction and in harmony with which its course is determined.

  5. From thence the Gouernour sent two horsemen to his people that were behind, to make haste after him; because the way grew long and their victuals short.

  6. This message being sent, we made all the haste we could vnto the ship of Belle isle, which first began with vs with three great shot, one whereof hit our maintopsaile, but both the other missed vs.

  7. Arming in haste his gallant city lancers, The mayor, to learn if true the news might be, A league or two out issued with his prancers.

  8. Lor; Make haste and get your costes in, They will not last much mor!

  9. He was in no haste to return to his audience.

  10. Surely if they were rights, they could be in no such imminent danger as this haste seemed to signify.

  11. An unmistakable shadow of confusion crossed his countenance; whereupon with consideration both for herself and him, the woman made haste to go on, as if she had but chosen her instance at merest random.

  12. He was in no haste to return to Daur-street.

  13. She made haste to lock her door, and they walked side by side to the Widdiehill.

  14. A description of him was added, and the stray was so kenspeckle, that Mistress Croale saw the necessity of haste to any hope of advantage.

  15. After these forces had shaken down the throne, and then, by driving away the Girondins, had made room for a vigorous government, Danton perceived the expediency of making all haste to an orderly state.

  16. So they haste to give him aid Because their wills are only made To serve the service of their Queen, Most precious gem the earth has seen.

  17. There was no occasion for haste in bringing it forward.

  18. She had come running from some place in the neighborhood, and had made all the haste she could.

  19. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.

  20. When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

  21. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?

  22. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

  23. He came along early, crossing my bean-field, though without anxiety or haste to get to his work, such as Yankees exhibit.

  24. By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising.

  25. I had just sunk my head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by a straggling troop of men and boys, and I among the foremost, for I had leaped the brook.

  26. Roennaug made haste to complete her toilet and go down-stairs.

  27. She had never made such haste home before.

  28. Famam extendere factis: no fabulous personage of antiquity made more haste than Guynemer to multiply the exploits that increased his glory.

  29. Lieutenant de Beauchamp--the future Captain de Beauchamp, who was to die so soon after his audacious raids on Essen and Munich--divined what was hidden in this thin boy who was in such breathless haste to get on.

  30. They had ridden in haste to Rome when they heard that Paul was dying to preserve order in the city.

  31. That is, let not thy patience and longsuffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making haste to my assistance.

  32. For the king of the north shall return, and shall prepare a multitude much greater than before: and in the end of times, and years, he shall come in haste with a great army, and much riches.

  33. And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his force.

  34. So gathering together all the men of war, he made haste to finish all the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.

  35. And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what mind you are.

  36. And saw him saying unto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

  37. He hath mercy on him that receiveth the discipline of mercy, and that maketh haste in his judgments.

  38. But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making haste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, and they went down into it.

  39. And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.

  40. A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.

  41. Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

  42. Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat.

  43. And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it.

  44. And charmed at thought of the great things awaiting him in London, he threw off his coat and bravely joined the crew in all their haste and bustle to weigh the anchor, and spread the sails before the freshening gale.

  45. In a few days Keimer was as good as his word; for having procured another set of letter cases, with a small pamphlet to print, he sent in all haste for Ben, and set him to work.

  46. So they left in great haste and marched for New York.

  47. This story frightened the Indians and they ran off in great haste through the woods.

  48. Those that did not fall scampered in haste down the hill.

  49. Captain Bragg sent a messenger in haste to General Taylor, saying that he must have more men or he could not hold his ground.

  50. They were made to get on the ships in such haste that families were often separated, husband and wife, or children and their mothers, being put on different ships and sent to different places.

  51. There was nothing for it but to run, and Captain Jones made haste to get away, followed by the "Solebay.

  52. As soon as the governor heard Washington's report he sent a party of men in great haste to build a fort at that point.

  53. There were few trained soldiers to meet this army, and those were not the days of railroads, so that no troops could be brought in haste from afar.

  54. At 1:40 in the afternoon the train came rattling into Buffalo, and its passenger leaped to the platform and made all haste to the house of Ainsley Wilcox, one of his special friends.

  55. The few emigrants who had passed through the Great Basin had made haste to get beyond and into the more inviting parts on the Pacific coast.

  56. Their animals were worn out by the long and strenuous journey, for in their haste for gold, these travelers had sacrificed all things, that they might make haste to their destination.

  57. They must make haste and put a stop to the devastation which is menaced by these infuriated fanatics, and they must go prepared and with the full determination to exterminate or expel them from the state en masse.

  58. Haslam left Cedar City in the afternoon of Monday, September 7, and made all haste on horseback, arriving in Salt Lake City on the morning of the 10th.

  59. The reason for this apparent haste was that the season was well advanced and every moment counted in the growing of their seed.

  60. These things to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste despatch She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up his discourse.

  61. Haste and secresy could be purchased then as now, and Philip and his bride were ferried across the frith, and landed at North Berwick, hours ere their lengthened absence had been noted by the elder sister as an unusual circumstance.

  62. An elderly female came in haste with a light.

  63. We mustn't let haste drive us farther than we really wanted to go.

  64. I suppose he and Wallace had something they wanted to talk about," she commented easily, and he made haste to assent.

  65. The latter, on receiving accounts of the departure of the Samnite army in the direction of Rome, had likewise set out in all haste to the assistance of the capital.

  66. When Caepio saw Maximus negotiating with the envoys of the Cimbri, he fancied that the latter wished to gain the sole credit of their subjugation, and threw himself with his portion of the army alone in all haste on the enemy.

  67. Nothing remained for the leaders but to escape in all haste through the still unoccupied gates; after a few hours Sulla was absolute master of Rome.

  68. Miss Aldclyffe descended from haughty superiority to womanly persuasion with a haste which was almost ludicrous.

  69. I am to blame for haste in alluding to any such thing.

  70. I will call her,' said Cytherea, moving in haste to the foot of the stairs.

  71. There is in them no trace of haste or carelessness; but neither is there evidence of any extraordinary effort, or minute professional scholarship.

  72. Does he really believe in his haste that all men who differ from him, or who tell him that he has misapprehended their teaching, are humbugs, pharisees, or liars?

  73. In this report they have obviously proceeded with more haste than discretion.

  74. I had been last night within fifty yards of the pools that we now found, but had not discovered them, as the evening was closing in at the time, and I was in great haste to return to my party before dark.

  75. He makes all haste to confirm all that Elizabeth had done to plunder and persecute Irish Catholics, and gets his Parliament to pass these acts: Statute 1, James, Chapter 4.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haste" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; accelerate; anxiety; bolt; bundle; bustle; career; carelessness; celerity; crowd; dart; dash; dispatch; drive; eagerness; excitement; expedite; expedition; flight; fling; flit; flurry; flutter; forward; fretfulness; fretting; fuss; haste; hasten; hastiness; hie; hump; hurry; hurtle; hustle; impatience; impulse; impulsiveness; indiscretion; knot; lather; post; precipitate; precipitation; press; promptness; push; quicken; quickness; race; railroad; rapidity; rashness; recklessness; restlessness; rush; scamper; scoot; scour; scramble; scud; scurry; scuttle; shoot; skedaddle; skin; speed; spur; stampede; stave; stew; suddenness; sweat; swiftness; tatter; tear; uneasiness; urge; velocity; whip


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    haste away; hastened away; hastened back