hasten

How To Use hasten In A Sentence

• With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
• HPL lived and died in genteel poverty, and some biographers have suggested that poor diet brought on by poverty may have hastened his death. Someone Is Angry On the Internet
• It ain 'fittin' fo 'you-all to say anythin' ag'in 'Dr. Morgan, whatever he may _se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge. A Tar-Heel Baron
• Hastening across the parapet from the opposite direction was a bowman as young as the man he'd shot. HERE BE DRAGONS
• Her chasteness was somehow the outward proof, the external manifestation, of a potential for sexual abandon all the more alluring for being hidden, invisible.
• Subsequent work helped to hasten the loosening of government control over broadcasting. Times, Sunday Times
• Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon. The Story of Pocahontas
• The process is hastened by heavy inputs of chemical fertiliser and pesticides. Times, Sunday Times
• In any event, the composer was badly shaken during this era, which probably hastened his death in 1950.
• The constant friction with his superiors probably hastened his downfall.