haste

A team of animal lovers has come to the rescue of pets people left behind in their haste in the area west of the wine-making capital of Bordeaux.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

President Masoud Pezeshkian is a functionary, selected in haste in 2024 to replace Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed into a mountain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Still, Browne cautioned against haste even as he urged action.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

So is there a sweet spot, somewhere between voting in haste and having your ballot go to waste?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

My daughter joined us, her haste making her breathless.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

A mighty blow Pygmalion then lets fall, Straight from th' impulsive engine starts the ball, Answ'ring its master's just design, it hastes, And from the hole scarce twice two clubs' length rests.

From Poems on Golf by Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing

The battle's o'er, the English arms successful; And Rivers, like an English warrior, hastes To lay his laurels at the feet of beauty.

From The Fatal Falsehood by More, Hannah

She spake; the old dame tottering hastes away.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The country folk having gone early to bed, tired with their day’s labor, L’Allegro hastes to the city, where the pleasures of life are prolonged further into the night.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

Proud Signild she hastes her array to put on, And unto the hall to Sir Loumor she’s gone.

From Proud Signild and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry

A group of Templars hasted to him, seized him and repelled him from me.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

It stood still in the midst of the heaven and hasted not to go down.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

From Time Magazine Archive

He anxiously dressed himself and hasted upon deck; but, whilst much slack and navigable ice was yet visible at some little distance to the north-westward, all about the ship was close and impenetrable.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William

They of the city hasted thither, for no whit did they fear those outlanders.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

Sun—or moon—that shines so brightly, 'Tis not sun, or moon that shines so brightly, 'Tis the bridegroom hasting to the marriage.

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various

These be King's men, hasting after the Master of the Mignons.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"Looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God."

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry

It was his hasting to bless Esau which drove Rebekah to checkmate him by winning the blessing for her favourite.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus

She then rose up, quite deprived of her senses through joy, and ran crouching away on the road towards Moffat, as if hasting beyond her power to be at it.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James