go at top speed
Example Sentences
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Obviously ring-rusty and, at 31, no longer able to go at top speed for 45 minutes, Robinson acted like a man about to retire after his next two fights.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Japan they go rather slowly, and refuse to overexert themselves, and quite right, too; but here they go at top speed.
From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
Our only chance is to get to the narrows before we are seen, and then go at top speed.
From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert
Renwick rushed out to the waiting fiacre, and bade the driver go at top speed.
From The Secret Witness by Gibbs, George
They made them go at top speed all day.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Footner, Hulbert