celerity

Example Sentences

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“A revision made in response to an entry’s increased attention differs only in celerity — as always, all revisions reflect evidence of use.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2020

The desert reduces its victims with barbarous celerity, and few of them are identifiable by outward appearance.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2020

The officer reacted with celerity, producing, seemingly out of nowhere, a tube that he deposited in his master’s hand.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

“If everyone shows good will, and contributes with responsibility, realism and celerity, we will get there.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2016

We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson