speed away

Example Sentences

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He claimed that his group had been informed that a cow was being loaded into a car and reached the spot, only to see the vehicle speed away.

From BBC • May 8, 2023

“The cost-of-living adjustment instantly transports you to where the car is at a point in time, but if it’s still moving you’re just going to see the car speed away from you again.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022

Jimenez’s friends were still in the parking lot at about 11:28 p.m. when they saw Jimenez run to his car and speed away.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2021

The twin paradox asks why a twin traveling at a relativistic speed away and then back towards the Earth ages less than the Earth-bound twin.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

He flung his club at it, but the little creature pulled back from his heel and looped, at great speed, away behind one of the white chalk boulders.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman