haste
IPA: hˈeɪst
noun
- Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
- (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
- A surname from Old French.
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
- (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
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Examples of "haste" in Sentences
- The appointment was made in some haste.
- Haste is a municipality in the district.
- In my haste, I didn't notice the author of the queries.
- In his haste, the technician dried the film too quickly.
- Is the volume you achieve in your haste worth the waste
- This sense of haste is evident in the film's frantic frivolousness.
- In the haste to rebuild the city, the plans were ultimately ignored.
- It is surely unseemly to be in such haste to kill an infant in its crib.
- Gabriel Le Noir came in haste from the military post where he had been stationed.
- "Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."
- From her scuppers she ran clear water, and the men were in haste and worked hard at the pumps.
- "Be not in haste," Canim cautioned her, as she began to strap the meagre camp outfit to her pack.
- And between this and the smells arising from various pots boiling and bubbling on the galley fire, I was in haste to get out into the fresh air.
- I probably should've proofread that as writing angry rants in haste is never a good thing, but I've never been this frustrated when dealing with an online store.
- When ones is in haste, one would hardly notice the fine intricacies of such trifles but when one slows down enough, as they say, to smell the roses, things happen.
- And not knowing that Ty-Kwan had disposed of them in haste so that his own people might not have to render account to the Government, Hooniah's pride was unshaken.
- Sorry: I typed in haste, and Kenneth Cranham just died in face, while his garden hose sprayed on, a symbol of man's essential meaninglessness in the great sweep of time.
- And when Kamar al-Zaman saw the two, he rose to his father in haste from the couch whereon he sat and kissing his hands drew back and hung down his head and stood before him with his arms behind him, and thus remained for a full hour.