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Example sentences for "rapid rate"

  • Some were seen moving at a rapid rate inland, bellowing loudly, while others crawled quickly down into the water.

  • The seal followed, but just then, Paul Lizard coming in sight, she bolted at him, moving over the ground with her flipper-like feet at a rapid rate.

  • At length it struck him that he might have a young men's class; and before the day was over all the young men on board had begged to belong to it, so that he not only had plenty of pupils, but he got them on at a rapid rate.

  • Moreover (b), a rapid rate in elementary processes is favorable to their fusion into higher unitary processes, each including several of the lower.

  • Finally (c), a rapid rate in elementary processes is favorable to prompt voluntary combinations in presence of new emergencies.

  • She came on at a rapid rate, her sails bellying out in the breeze, and her lee-rail awash with the water.

  • Then he sprang at the obstacle before him, and, using both hands and feet, came clambering up at a rapid rate.

  • Having brought the Dyaks to a halt by the signal, Li Sung went off on all-fours at a rapid rate, taxing Tyler's strength to the full to keep up with him.

  • It now looks like a great bag, but the outside of that bag is covered with numbers of suckers, by which it is able to crawl about at a rapid rate; while in the inside are its head and intestines, and all its fishing apparatus.

  • The whole party followed, and walked along the road at a rapid rate, every now and then looking behind them as if they expected to be pursued.

  • Two carts were standing before the door; jumping into them, without entering the house, they drove on at a rapid rate.

  • The three sufferers had no illness to fight against, and began to regain their normal strength very rapidly, while nature was hiding the destruction wrought upon the face of the land at a rapid rate.

  • The ropes which secured the raft to the rock were cast off, the crew gave way with the oars, the sail was hoisted to catch a light northerly air, and a strong shove sent it gliding through the water at a rapid rate.

  • The little vessel flew across the water at a rapid rate; for, though the sea was smooth, there was a fresh breeze to fill the sails.

  • It seemed also to know its danger, and flew along over the ground at a rapid rate; but still the cumbrous monster came as fast, trumpeting and shrieking with rage.

  • The wounded animal fled away by itself, and though evidently, by the flow of blood from its side, severely hurt, it yet continued springing forward at a rapid rate.

  • At the report the whole herd moved off, swinging their legs over the plain at a rapid rate.

  • This intimation was followed by profound silence; and the vehicle rolled along at a rapid rate.

  • Without being handsome, he was a very fine man; and he talked away at a rapid rate, getting on good terms with all the other boarders by the time breakfast was over, and very intimate indeed before the cloth was removed after dinner.

  • Margery could only murmur her thanks, as Tom bore her in his arms across the garden and down the hill at a rapid rate, Charley bringing up the rear, and ready to do battle should they be pursued.

  • Polly had well-knit limbs, and, being accustomed to active exercise, led the way at a rapid rate.

  • In an instant he felt himself lifted up by strong arms, and placed on a seat next to another man who had not before spoken, and the cart drove on at a rapid rate.

  • Captain Hayward heard the question, and striking his horse with the spur, he dashed forward at a rapid rate, followed by the whole party.

  • He started on his way, while the horsemen proceeded down the hill at a rapid rate.

  • I must own that I had fallen asleep, and was dreaming of old England and my comfortable arm-chair, when I was awoke by finding my companions rising and beginning to move on at a rapid rate--I was so sleepy that I could not tell where.

  • But inasmuch as there would be always some loss in the gap, the medium, which should be continuous, should exchange through the gap at a rapid rate.

  • Among the various current phenomena observed, perhaps the most interesting are those of impedance presented by conductors to currents varying at a rapid rate.

  • Although Simon moved at a rapid rate, there was nothing frantic in his gestures.

  • Saying this he set off with us, and at a rapid rate we retraced our steps to the Indian camp.

  • It appeared to be about three feet high, while its arms were between five and six feet across, and by them it was swinging itself along among the trees at a rapid rate.

  • This done, we again moved forward at a rapid rate.

  • Some accident or other was, however, continually occurring; and before the anchor could be got up and the cable ranged, the ship was in the centre of the channel, driving away at a rapid rate out to sea.

  • Darkness is seen to initiate a movement of closure which increased at a rapid rate; the black cloth was removed after an hour, and the movement of opening under light was completed in the course of five quarters of an hour.

  • But stoppage of stimulus at c causes an over-shooting at a rapid rate far below the zero line; and it is after a considerable period that the curve returns to the zero line of equilibrium.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attitude toward; dear soul; dense bush; divine revelation; eight states; good long; keep close; might fall; rapid fire; rapid glance; rapid growth; rapid march; rapid marches; rapid motion; rapid movement; rapid pace; rapid pulse; rapid rate; rapid stream; rapid succession; rapidly increasing; second hand; senatorial rank; sent unto; single man; without further