HASTY in a Sentence

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88 example sentences for HASTY, such as:

1. The army beat a hasty retreat.
2. I decided to beat a hasty retreat.
3. He scrawled a hasty note to his wife.
4. A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
5. They shouldn't have made such a hasty decision.

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 Meanings and Examples of HASTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hasty
 a.  easily angered; irritable; made too quickly to be accurate or wise
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2  At a wild torrent which swept out of a ravine they called a halt and watered their horses, while they partook of a hasty breakfast.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  It was a hasty note to inform Louisa that Mrs. Gradgrind lay very ill.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
4  It appeared, indeed, from the countenance of this proprietor, that he was of a frank, but hasty and choleric temper.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Cedric darted at the forward damsel a glance of hasty resentment; but Rowena, and whatever belonged to her, were privileged and secure from his anger.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  With hasty alacrity Gurth obeyed him, while Wamba and the Jew followed, both wondering at the sudden change in the swineherd's demeanour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The prisoners were compelled by their guards to alight, and were conducted to an apartment where a hasty repast was offered them, of which none but Athelstane felt any inclination to partake.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  The heavy, yet hasty step of the men-at-arms, traversed the battlements or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartisans and points of defence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  This ill-timed defiance might have procured for De Bracy a volley of arrows, but for the hasty and imperative interference of the outlaw Chief.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
11  Thou art pardoned, Fitzurse," said the prince, gravely; "thy purpose hath atoned for thy hasty rashness.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  It had been, as he before presumed, too hasty a measure on Crawford's side, and time must be given to make the idea first familiar, and then agreeable to her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Although Oliver had enough to occupy his attention in keeping sight of his leader, he could not help bestowing a few hasty glances on either side of the way, as he passed along.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  The girl laughed again: even less composedly than before; and, darting a hasty look at Sikes, turned her face aside, and bit her lip till the blood came.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  He passed a great many public-houses; but, at length paused before one in a by-way, whose parlour, as he gathered from a hasty peep over the blinds, was deserted, save by one solitary customer.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence:
1  We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar.
2  The army beat a hasty retreat.
3  I decided to beat a hasty retreat.
4  A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
5  One company is giving its employees airplane tickets in the event they need to make a hasty escape.
6  He scrawled a hasty note to his wife.
7  They shouldn't have made such a hasty decision.
8  I remember her as a slim young woman, with black hair, dark eyes, very nice features; but she had a capricious and hasty temper, and indifferent ideas of principle or justice.
9  It disappeared in his glove; and, with one hasty nod and "good-afternoon," he vanished.