HASTE in a Sentence

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220 example sentences for HASTE, such as:

1. The old woman obeyed in all haste.
2. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3. In his blind haste he almost ran into the river.
4. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed.
5. Who has no haste in his business mountains to him seem valleys.

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 Meanings and Examples of HASTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
haste
 n.  hurry; rapidity of action or motion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  Isabeau ran out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
4  Let us eat with meditation; let us make haste slowly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  Consider the springtime; if it makes haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
6  Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
7  A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
8  The old woman obeyed in all haste.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
9  He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
10  After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
11  In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a bottle of wine and a glass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
12  Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thenardier uplifted her voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  She made haste to send her daughters to bed, then she asked the man's permission to send Cosette off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal air.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
14  He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
15  Even at that time any one who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
Example Sentence:
1  In his blind haste he almost ran into the river.
2  Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3  Who has no haste in his business mountains to him seem valleys.
4  Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
5  The contract says the work must be completed with all possible haste.
6  Unfortunately the report was prepared in haste and contained several inaccuracies.
7  The young man went scrambling down into the ward in frantic haste.
8  Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards.
9  Many a truism is summed up in a proverb; for example, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure.".
10  Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.