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• The Scriptures aim not merely to paint life, but to quicken and reproduce life.2019, Francis John McConnell, Understanding the Scriptures, Good Press. From the entry scriptures
• The music quickened into dance-time with the theme of a song emerging.1934, Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse. From the entry dance-time
• Ursula's heart quickened agonizingly, though she lay still, tingling with the thought.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry agonizingly
• It's the sugar rush that quickens the pulse.2017 January 31, Jim Myers, “Nashville's Best Candies for Valentine's Day”, in Tennesseean. From the entry frabjous
• Yet when I lay awake at night contemplating the months ahead, my heart would bolter and my breathing quicken.2000, John Paul Newport, The Fine Green Line. From the entry bolter
• But our reflexes and our general ability to react have not quickened as have the cars we drive.1968, Fred E. Taylor, How to avoid automobile accidents, page 30. From the entry velocitized
• Hang above your Portals The shielding quicken bough!1917, Edward Harry William Meyerstein, Wilfrid Blair, Black and White Magic - Page 60. From the entry housen
• Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent with a pleasant sense of satiety.1905, Warwick Deeping, chapter XXV, in The Slanderers, Harper and Brothers. From the entry vicaress
• However, there are other changes in Canadian English with a clear quickening of pace in generations X and Y and on down into Generation ZED.2016, Sali A. Tagliamonte, ““So cool, right?”: Canadian English Entering the 21st Century”, in Canadian Journal of Linguistics, volume 51…. From the entry Generation Zed
• Imbolc has three major associations: the veneration of fire and water, the quickening of new life in the womb, and the lactation of ewes.2007, Judy Ann Nock, “Season Three: Imbolc: First Light in the Dark of Winter”, in The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year: Spells…. From the entry Imbolc
• Outside, a wind from the south had picked up, a thawing wind that quickened the patter of snowmelt on the back patio.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry snowmelt
• The Shannon River, lost since Limerick city, was drawing nearer to name the airport, and a tributary quickened its way towards it.1955, Elizabeth Bowen, chapter XI, in A World of Love, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, part I, pages 219–220. From the entry skein
• The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437. From the entry somewhither
• They had quickened him by denial.1911, Jack London, “When God Laughs”, in When God Laughs, and Other Stories, New York: Macmillan, page 22. From the entry aburst
• Immediately there was a spurt of water, the flash of a quickening body - and that was the ducklet as he dived away to join his mates!1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 148. From the entry ducklet
• He ran along the edge, quickening at the shout of the kennel-boy, and had almost reached the island’s tail when Bite’m pinned him in the shoulder.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry tiss
• The detective felt his interest quicken but he sounded matter-of-fact as he asked, "What makes you so sure this Harris could be one of the guys in on this hit?"1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 96. From the entry matter-of-fact

Meaning of quicken

1. verb To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
2. verb To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
3. verb To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).

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How do you use quicken in a sentence?

Quicken is used as a verb and noun. For example: “My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.”

What is a short sentence with quicken?

“They had quickened him by denial.”

What does quicken mean?

Quicken means to put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.