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.
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