make haste
Example Sentences
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"Parliament members now need to make haste so that they can bring in skilled, honest and deserving candidates to the seats reserved for women in parliament."
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Then it will turn west and make haste: “We’re gonna gun it for the delta,” Stack Morgan says.
From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2022
As she headed back to the warehouse, her dispatcher encouraged her to make haste to beat the tornado, she said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2021
“Faced with these uncertainties, we expect the RBA to make haste slowly, commencing a tightening cycle from mid-2023 onwards.”
From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2021
“There! you will find it scarcely more legible than a crumpled, scratched page. Read on: only make haste, for I suffer.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.