hurry
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He was a sweet retiree who’d tell me about his weekly fishing adventures and close my garage whenever I was in a hurry and would forget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Mohamed Nias was one of the hundreds of Moroccans who left work in a hurry on Thursday, having "heard that the border with Ceuta was open".
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
As anchored as he is to Beirut, she is a transnationally minded sophisticate who is in a major hurry to move to Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Once the IPO hype cools and lockup periods expire, reality tends to show up in a hurry.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
I hurry through breakfast, do a quick “nutty up, nutty down” with Boo, and run most of the way to school to meet Ana before class.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
The man hurries off to do his shopping, soundtracked by pneumatic drills and ripped up concrete - noises many Glaswegians are currently very familiar with.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
She prepares dinner, then hurries to an Amazon warehouse for a 6 1/2-hour shift sorting, scanning and hefting bulky items.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Each hurries forth into the night, headed somewhere we can’t possibly know in a world full of uncertainty.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
Halfway through the season, Toia has tallied just 12 tackles, half a tackle for loss and two quarterback hurries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Before either of us can say anything, he hurries out of the room with the rest of his groceries.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Now it means not being hurried, spending time with my family, control over my schedule, and intellectual independence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Some tourists waited under a pine tree while others hurried up the Via dei Fori Imperiali, wearing hats or carrying umbrellas to escape the infernal sun.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Oh, thank you so much,” she said as the pair hurried up the stairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Inside an intimate pub, however, filling out the scene with empty tables could distract from the hurried, nervous nature of the filmmaker’s original intent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
I hurried to the cellar and got some more apples.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The following day, a 30-year-old ski patroller named Cole Murphy was with a team of colleagues hurrying to clear the freshly fallen snow from a series of expert slopes known, appropriately, as the Avalanche Chutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
From its opening, in 1999, the narrative briefly advances to 2002 and Siri’s glimpse of a young man hurrying away from a homeless encampment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
We’re most vulnerable when we’re hurrying to check things off the to-do list and get a good deal, especially one too good to be true.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
England's centre-back pairing Williamson and Millie Bright were on top form, Lauren Hemp added a further two assists to her name and Alessia Russo was outstanding up front, hurrying and harrying the French defence.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024
People were crossing the square, hurrying toward the bull-ring.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
