hurry
Example Sentences
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Because no one was in a hurry, the encounters felt far less fleeting than you would find in an airport lounge or on a flight.
“This is a fantastic place for the Russians to be. They need to do very little here. All their responses show they don’t feel much need to hurry things along,” she said.
A simple analogy is people packed into a crowded elevator: the moment the door opens, they hurry to escape.
From Science Daily
They are tied for sixth with 98 quarterback pressures and seventh with 37 quarterback hurries.
From Los Angeles Times
Within a single paragraph, we are told that time “was flying by,” that someone “stopped in his tracks” while others “hurried breathlessly.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.