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haste

[heyst] / heɪst /


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But like Colletti before him, with Walter having purchased the majority stake in the Lakers, Pelinka is going to have to crash the hourglass and build a winner with haste.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2026

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

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

“Most obituaries are written in haste with the help of a funeral director,” said James R. Hagerty, a longtime obituary writer for the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

In the haste to disrupt the obesity epidemic, weight loss has been treated as the singular, undisputed metric of success, which experts say is problematic.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

Their figures are bent, their faces full of grief, despair, haste, and resignation.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Thus often, as I chase my hope from me, Straightway she hastes her unto Delia's eyes; Fed with some pleasing look, there shall she be, And so sent back.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

So, borne upon her bow 730 Of myriad hues, unseen, the maiden hastes below.

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

His erran's deen, as fast as he cu'd spang, hastes to Luckie's howf to join the thrang, An' Luckie smirks her kin'liest welcome ben, Prinkin' her feathers like a tappit hen.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick

In my soft bed, the rest which I desire, Forth from my frame does my sad soul retire, And hastes toward thee its eager way to make.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

Oh, if Aunt Priscilla were to rise, and, looking out of her bedroom window, catch a glimpse of her, as she hastes to meet the man she has been forbidden to know!

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

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

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Exclaiming, “What a nice thing!” he hasted back to his master Ogula, and called him.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

For the nonce she was at mass, but after hearing it, she hasted to make ready her attire.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Pisan, Christin? de

And when she had done the deed She swooned, and those her followers hasting back Fell prone upon their knees before the corpse As to a goddess.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

Again she took to flight, hasting along the edge of the stream, up into the heart of the gorge.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

Dost thou lament that life, urg'd-on too quickly, Rolls round its course in hasting revolution?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Thence, hasting by private stairs and passages, he came at length unseen to his own chamber, tore off his clothes, and threw himself upon his bed in the dark.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Then the countryman brought whatever he could save, and the women and children their movable chattels, hasting to some distant place of concealment.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav




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