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• A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.From the entry moor
• They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.From the entry shore up
• The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.From the entry turn out
• This day will be hastened if world governments take action to end tax havens.2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian. From the entry hangover
• You can also hasten the bletting process by giving firm medlars a night in the freezer.2011, Mark Diacono, Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9, Bloomsbury Publishing, unnumbered page. From the entry blet
• Their theory was admirable but their performance hastened the day of dieseldom.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.. From the entry dieseldom
• The abscess may be hastened to a head by hot fomentations or poultices.1934 December, Hubert Bunyea, W. T. Miller, “[Diseases and Conditions Affecting the Udder.] Abscess.”, in Udder Diseases of Dairy Cows…. From the entry fomentation
• This indicates a need for hastening the maturity of all crops affected.1929 June, F[red] C[ory] Bishopp, “Control Measures”, in The Bollworm or Corn Ear Worm as a Cotton Pest (U.S. Department of Agriculture…. From the entry earworm
• It was all incoherent and Doctor Q and Quentin hastened to uncasque the man within.1919, Arthur B. Reeve, The Master Mystery. From the entry uncasque
• I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 97. From the entry ulster
• Instead, she hastens straight to the boudoir of the queen who chose celibacy as a means of wielding power.2014 February 7, Kathryn Harrison, “The body politic”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry body politic
• The new interior secretary also hastened to resolve the long simmering dispute over the payment of scrip to the dam workers.2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. From the entry scrip
• His death hastened the division of a relatively homogenous department into its subsequent component bits—the Islandists, New Guineaists, and Southeast Asianists.2014, Brij V. Lal, Allison Ley, The Coombs: A House of Memories, page 271. From the entry islandist
• “Sometimes,” he hastened to explain, looking at Khadijah and me, stroking his beard, “the fruit at Gaia is slightly rotten.2013, Benjamin Nugent, Good Kids, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry spritz
• Avoid saturated and trans fats, which may hasten brain aging.2012 March, “Flexing your brain”, in Consumer Reports on Health, volume 24, number 3, page 9. From the entry fish
• Following the election, those who had publicly opposed Harding hastened to really themselves with Republicans who had remained in the party.1997, Warren F. Kuehl, Lynne Dunn, Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920-1939, Kent State…. From the entry really
• Instead of following the Scheherazadean strategy of delaying death, such suicidal narratives are a means of hastening the narrator's end.1994, Robert Scott Leventhal, Reading After Foucault. From the entry Scheherazadean
• One or two minor nations, whom no one suspected of controlling any satellites at all, hastened to make similar declarations.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 29. From the entry biological warfare
• To hasten labor a Champetier de Ribes dilating bag was inserted but failed to have the desired effect.1918 Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation, "Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics", page 76. From the entry quadripara
• Thus, hypothesis driven implementation of such pharmacoinformatics pipeline hastens the rate of drug discovery of natural molecules and their simpler mimetics with better pharmacological properties.2015 August 4, Shivalika Pathania et al., “SerpentinaDB: a database of plant-derived molecules of Rauvolfia serpentina”, in BMC…. From the entry pharmacoinformatics
• Smiling at the thought, he hastened into the palace and down to the council chamber, hoping he was not late for the session.2011, Pati Nagle, Heart of the Exiled. From the entry eldermother
• And yet his people report mat the apprehension of your Lordship's discourtesies and misrespect hastened his end, whereof my Lord his son seems very sensible.2003, James Charles Roy, The Fields Of Athenry: A Journey Through Ireland. From the entry misrespect
• Alarmed, Wu hastened from North China.1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 55. From the entry Wuchang
• The addition of tannin to defecated and undefecated juice before pasteurization hastened the rate of clearing slightly, but not enough to warrant its use.1914, Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, volume 91, page 54. From the entry undefecated
• The noiseless leaping forward of the canoe beneath him heightened his sense of breaking with the past and hastening onward into another life.1910, Basil King, chapter VI, in The Wild Olive: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, part I (Ford), page…. From the entry law unto oneself
• Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times. From the entry transition
• He would smash his face into the doors at the end of his walks, trying to hasten their opening, and leave his little brown dog-nose smudges at his level.2011, Toni Johnstone, Dogified: A Poodle's Memoir, Tate Publishing, page 121. From the entry dog-nose
• By bodyslamming its new Rob Lowe courtroom drama, "The Lyon's Den," against ABC's surprisingly resurgent courtroom drama, "The Practice," NBC hastened the swift demise of its best fall entry.2003 November 22, “NBC executive plays coy about ending hits”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, →ISSN. From the entry bodyslam
• Once we reach the airport the players dump their bags at the American Airlines counter and hasten to the departure gate to secure the most sleepable spaces.1998, Charles Rosen, Phil Jackson, The Cockroach Basketball League. From the entry sleepable
• We had never suspected the existence of a silly antimirror law, and if it still exists in any hospital we trust the management will hasten to rescind it.1902 June 21, “Mirrors for Hospital Patients”, in American Medicine, volume 3, page 1032. From the entry antimirror
• Eventually, of course, the West will absorb enormous quantities of locally-produced metallifactures; the war may easily hasten the establishment of some of these factories close to the point of production.1918 January 1, “Copper Metallurgy in 1917”, in Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, volume 18, number 1, New York: McGraw-Hill…. From the entry metallifacture

Meaning of hasten

1. verb To move or act in a quick fashion.
2. verb To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
3. verb To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

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Questions about hasten in a sentence

How do you use hasten in a sentence?

Hasten is used as a verb. For example: “A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.”

What is a short sentence with hasten?

“Alarmed, Wu hastened from North China.”

What does hasten mean?

Hasten means to move or act in a quick fashion.