killing pace
Example Sentences
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MGM knew that, increasingly, albums were where the money lay, and his new deal required Orbison to work at a killing pace: 42 songs, three albums and at least three singles per year.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016
Earl Jones, 20, an Eastern Michigan University sophomore, set a killing pace and somehow held on against Johnny Gray, who was awarded the same 1:43.74 American record time.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a killing pace that produced 400 original songs, nearly 200 concerts a year, 19 record albums and three gold records.
From Time Magazine Archive
Setting a killing pace for the official sedans that followed, he swerved along the northward-twisting highway toward the Caribbean.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chase seemed hopeless; the heat was most oppressive; and we had been running for the last hour at a killing pace through a most distressing country.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
