great haste
Example Sentences
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The crunchy gravel, the chandeliers, the gardens, the grand foyers, the full-length gloves, the piano forte, the needlepoint, the riding boots, the love letters sent in great haste.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2020
Henry David Thoreau raised an eyebrow: “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018
In great haste, three days later Syria agreed to join the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2018
Unlike the disarray in Boehner’s House, the intramural Democratic fight in the 1944 Senate was resolved with great haste.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 20, 2015
In his great haste, he tripped on the hem of his robe and ran right into the cauldron he had been boiling for us.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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