make haste
Example Sentences
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Start in secret; explore options; as the ancients advised, “make haste slowly.”
From Washington Post
The battle for Marawi, and now this latest bombing, are warnings that jihadists are lurking, ready to pounce unless Mr Murad and Mr Duterte make haste to end the separatist conflict.
From Economist
Sitting there you must embrace the ancient, contradictory notion of festina lente: to make haste slowly.
From New York Times
Kelly Oubre Jr. had finished showering and dressed to make haste for the exit long before the Washington Wizards’ locker room opened to the media after Friday night’s season-ending loss in Game 6 of their first-round series in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
From Washington Post
It then shared a link to its definition of oxymoron: “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
