haste

“Most obituaries are written in haste with the help of a funeral director,” said James R. Hagerty, a longtime obituary writer for the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

Getting New York state, New Jersey, the city and the federal government to work together, in good faith and with all due haste, is important to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

As we made haste to Tehran, Pakistan's Army Chief, Field Marshall Asim Munir, landed in the capital to try to accelerate mediation efforts and narrow the gaps on these and other issues.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Turns out, Thollander was right: This experience had nothing to do with haste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

“Make haste, folks!” he yelled, waving his hat and pushing me toward the caboose.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Then deeply plunge “Beneath the foaming gush thy head, where full “It spouts its waters; and thy error cleanse, “As clean thy limbs thou washest.”—To the stream The king as bidden hastes.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Thus often, as I chase my hope from me, Straightway she hastes her unto Delia's eyes; Fed with some pleasing look, there shall she be, And so sent back.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

Lo! with outstretched arms he hastes to meet you, with tokens of welcome and the kiss of peace.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

A mighty blow Pygmalion then lets fall, Straight from th' impulsive engine starts the ball, Answ'ring its master's just design, it hastes, And from the hole scarce twice two clubs' length rests.

From Poems on Golf by Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing

She the acquaintances she loves, Her spacious fields and shady groves, Another visit hastes to pay.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

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

The sun hid his face, and hasted away, As a woman hurries from the strife of battle!

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

They of the city hasted thither, for no whit did they fear those outlanders.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

If, even for a moment, he had an interval of strength, his busy pen began again to race over the paper, hasting to set down the thoughts that filled his brain.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir

My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew’th.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

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 Freytag, Gustav

And when she had done the deed She swooned, and those her followers hasting back Fell prone upon their knees before the corpse As to a goddess.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

"Never hasting, never resting," a fine life-motto, Cardie; but our time is nearly at an end, we must be going now.'

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette