haste

A team of animal lovers has come to the rescue of pets people left behind in their haste in the area west of the wine-making capital of Bordeaux.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Still, Browne cautioned against haste even as he urged action.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

In the haste to disrupt the obesity epidemic, weight loss has been treated as the singular, undisputed metric of success, which experts say is problematic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

Met Police chief Mark Rowley accused Polanski of amplifying "inaccurate and misinformed commentary" and Polanski later apologised for "sharing a tweet in haste".

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

The distance back to the front of the building seemed miles away, and in his haste Fadi faltered, tripping on loose gravel.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Let us remember "That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mote away; Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky."

From The Right of American Slavery by T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit

My vengeance now is won, And ere to-morrow's sun shall set, Thou, haughty lady, shalt forget The lover who now hastes to thee, And smile alone, alone on me.

From Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott

It is the quiet, sane, constant work of the Spirit in and upon our spirit, that never hastes and never tires: which gives me comfort for you, for myself, for all of us.

From Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

The battle's o'er, the English arms successful; And Rivers, like an English warrior, hastes To lay his laurels at the feet of beauty.

From The Fatal Falsehood by Hannah More

Your young king hastes not so with his marriage, and therein he acts wisely.

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

A group of Templars hasted to him, seized him and repelled him from me.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

It stood still in the midst of the heaven and hasted not to go down.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

From Time Magazine Archive

I soon met with Sir William, and on my expressing an inclination to retire, to my great astonishment, instead of censuring, he commended my resolution, and hasted to the door to procure my carriage.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

The miller hasted and drew his dam,65 Binnorie, O Binnorie; And there he found a drown'd woman; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

I eagerly turned, and in the figure hasting toward me with outstretched hand,—as soon as I could read between the lines of mud on him,—I recognized my dear old teacher, Jesse Jones.

From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by William Meade Dame

So Romulus when proud ambition, His former vertue and renowne had stayned: Did by the Senators receiue his end, But soft what boades Titinnius hasting speede.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous

Then the countryman brought whatever he could save, and the women and children their movable chattels, hasting to some distant place of concealment.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

Dost thou lament that life, urg'd-on too quickly, Rolls round its course in hasting revolution?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

Behold, 'tis Paris, hasting there toward This tent.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes