How To Use Hasty In A Sentence
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In my hasty departure from home I had missed my ordination.
A Channel of Peace
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So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in dispatching his breakfast, as, the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.
Chapter XXV
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Thereupon Shawahi came forward and kissing the ground before the Queen, took the hem of her garment and laid it on her head, saying, O Queen, by my claim for fosterage, be not hasty with him, more by token of thy knowledge that this poor wretch is a stranger, who hath adventured himself and suffered what none ever suffered before him, and Allah (to whom belong Might and
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Readers may safely treat his latest intervention as being what it appears to be: hasty, heated, and insubstantial.
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We beat a hasty retreat to the nearby town of Petersfield.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
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I tell ya what, de next time yer comin inta town bring de auld bike wit ya and ya can chain it to de pole outside, ‘sniggered Jim backing out the door, deciding that it was time to beat a hasty retreat.’
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The campaign warns people not to let the caller in if they are suspicious, or to be pressured into a hasty decision and pay any money up front.
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I think they've been a bit hasty.
Times, Sunday Times
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The journal must come out four times a year with the requisite number of articles in it, on occasion forcing hasty and sometimes ill-considered decisions.
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I watched over my hasty temper, subdued my burning impatience of character, schooled my self-engrossing thoughts, educating myself to the best perfection I might attain, that the fruit of my exertions might be his happiness.
The Last Man
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But when he makes a pass at her, she makes a hasty exit.
The Sun
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The lawyer's "ally is chance," and his "task is to disrupt an overhasty reliance on what appears to be the truth," says the rather fiendish omniscient narrator in one story.
Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow
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EDIT: Haha ... perhaps I shouldn't be so hasty to watch a "romcom".
Archive 2009-02-01
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At the camp at Kokinia, outside Athens, 'lorries were being hurriedly packed, stores and equipment were flung about anyhow, officers' valises and suitcases were lying open with their contents scattered around as if the owners had made a hasty choice of their more valuable belongings at the last moment.
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made a hasty exit
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Good news for those who think that the government has been getting a bit hasty about releasing information.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stefan is making a hasty departure from the party when he bumps into the a-hole from the dance floor.
OBS RECAPS & REVIEWS: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES EPISODE 18:UNDER CONTROL | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as maya-mutras the obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswasty timberman torch-priest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the wood that Jove bolt, at his rude word.
Finnegans Wake
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I think perhaps we were a little hasty in judging him.
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They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.
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Most of these newer buildings were made of wood, and many showed signs of uncharacteristically hasty construc - tion and shoddy workmanship.
Flint, the King
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But the wider financial district was forced into a hasty evacuation last Tuesday in a terrifying fog of dust and smoke.
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Next day I discovered that in my hasty exit I left my favourite belt behind.
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Things got worse when he was made an offer that he had to refuse and he made a hasty retreat.
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Please excuse any misquotes and the hasty sketch.
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She finished her hasty packing and zipped up the bag.
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I made a hasty exit.
Times, Sunday Times
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I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must lay aside the quick, potent energy of blind rage and revenge, which can only power us to hasty judgements.
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This, they hold, gives the man a chance to atone for any hasty decision he might have taken.
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Bara also warned that such a hasty accusation could prompt a perception among the public that it is merely camouflage for the real masterminds of the bombings.
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I hope you have not made any hasty arrangements with him for certainly you can surmise, his only intentions will be to ill use her and then cast her aside in poverty and disgrace.
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But at the end of a week of hasty retreats on payday lenders and cigarette packaging such crazy symmetry sounded horribly plausible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now let's not leap to any hasty conclusions.
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He stared the larger man down until the officer beat a hasty retreat and disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr.. Pawket squeezed out the dishmop with a thoughtful air; she cast a hasty, authoritative glance at the range, banging the door shut with a decision that made Mr. Pawket jump as she snapped:
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Hasty action is to be deprecated.
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One model-actress kept the children waiting for hours, and then made a hasty exit after five minutes.
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Fisheries director Erminio Lima Alberto told AFP that the EU should reconsider the ban, which he called a hasty measure.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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On reflection you realise that you might have been a bit hasty and paid too much for something that you don't want or need.
Times, Sunday Times
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While that suggests a rather piecemeal and hasty approach to any serious design project, the mayor speaks more inspirationally of "an enduring, world-class street.
Surface Improvements
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Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness. —
Ulysses
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I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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He turned a callow youth, pale and hasty, into the most feared striker in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hasty love is soon hot and soon cold.
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He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
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I received a look of awkward horror followed by some hasty compliments, an expression of surprise and the insistence that it was ‘very competitive’.
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After a long time (and the chant showed no signs of slackening) he found himself wondering, since Entish was such an ‘unhasty’ language, whether they had yet got further than Good Morning; and if Treebeard was to call the roll, how many days it would take to sing all their names.
The Lord of the Rings
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He stared the larger man down until the officer beat a hasty retreat and disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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The newly formed In Defense of Freedom Coalition held a news conference on September 20 and released a statement expressing concern over hasty Congressional action.
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A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
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Why has the Government taken such a hasty decision to restore the old order?
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A hasty exclamation was recorded faithfully over our detectaphone, close to the transmitter, evidently.
Guy Garrick
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It said Foreign Affairs clearly did not understand the consequences of South Africa's "overhasty" action in severing diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In my hasty departure from home I had missed my ordination.
A Channel of Peace
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Let us not be too hasty in pressing any opinion arising and divulged with odious consequences of sedition, turbulency, and the like, because tumults and troubles happen in the commonwealth where it is asserted.
The Sermons of John Owen
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I guess I'll be wanted," the pawnbroker observed, as he jerked open his shirt, tearing out the four buttons in his impetuousness and showing a Colt's .44 automatic, strapped in its holster against the bare skin of his side under his left arm, the butt of the weapon most readily accessible to any hasty dip of his right hand.
CHAPTER XV
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We beat a hasty retreat to the nearby town of Petersfield.
Times, Sunday Times
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He may realise that he's been a bit hasty.
The Sun
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Indeed, a sense of hasty abridgement endures throughout the first half: incident follows incident in a breezy sequence at odds with the novel's steady accretion of narrative.
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A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to take a hasty decision.
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In spite of the opening and closing of doors, the hasty messengers, the ringing of bells and the perpetual clitter-clack of recording implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inactive, inoperative.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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The effect of this looseness in the laws is to encourage hasty, incon - siderate marriages, and to make escape from an uncongenial partner so easy that the obligation to cultivate forbearance, and to acquire mutual adaptation, which may not at first exist, is wholly overlooked.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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A self-confessed soft spot for wine and women reputedly put a hasty end to his vocation, but he is still an ardent Christian.
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We beat a hasty retreat to the nearby town of Petersfield.
Times, Sunday Times
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The landau, though roomy and comfortable, was, like Una's lion, a "most unhasty beast," and we rolled quite slowly and deliberately over a distinctly uninteresting plain for about twenty miles, until we came to
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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He stared the larger man down until the officer beat a hasty retreat and disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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She replied not without timidity, but without that hasty bashfulness which is so often taken for modesty.
Rudin
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It was introduced nationally only last month, after an overhasty evaluation process.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Bill grabbed a large broom to fend off the one-metre long reptile, it reared up, sparking a hasty retreat from Bill.
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I have enumerated them merely to suggest that any hasty inferences regarding the bearing of the Susian design upon the general problem are apt to be misleading.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dravid had missed out on a lovely batting surface in Multan, consumed on a rather hasty pull by Sami.
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It just goes to show that it often pays long-term investors to wait patiently and avoid being panicked into hasty reactions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas, forcing the marchers into hasty retreat.
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While making a hasty exit, Mike and Debbie come face to face with some of the scariest clowns ever to set down this side of the midway!
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A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
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(The elf is not the most courageous of our heroes, unfortunately) While reforging the key to the door that would lead them even deeper down, the heroes were overrun by enemies, but the key was ready mere seconds before they had to make a hasty retreat.
Weekend heroes in the Great Barrows
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The last element in this hasty enumeration is the collapse of all the philosophical and historical hypotheses that claimed to reveal the laws governing the course of history.
Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture
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Their 2003 adventure ended in frustration when inclement weather forced a hasty retreat.
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You'll have to do precisely that - unless you beat a hasty exit from the table.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hasty military exit risks undermining it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lawson might have been better off waiting for Edinburgh's new coach to be appointed before making any hasty decision.
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Following this revelation, perhaps we shouldn't be too hasty to rule out the possibility that there is also a simple algorithm for factorization that has similarly been overlooked.
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Frankie and Wes left the party rather abruptly after that, bidding hasty goodbyes and hurrying out to the car.
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I decided to beat a hasty retreat.
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The observations above suggest that, whilst he may have been correct in writing about a decline in donnish dominion in the universities, he was over-hasty in proclaiming an end to that dominion.
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Just mentioning this to an agent used to result in, "Now, let's not be hasty …"theindyisbetter:We need young people to be able to afford to buy their own homes, not feather the nests of buy-to-let investors and property speculators.
Rent increases slow but more tenants fall behind on payments
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Some habits of hasty irritation he had contracted, partly, it was said in the borough of Fairport, from an early disappointment in love in virtue of which he had commenced misogynist, as he called it, but yet more by the obsequious attention paid to him by his maiden sister and his orphan niece, whom he had trained to consider him as the greatest man upon earth, and whom he used to boast of as the only women he had ever seen who were well broke in and bitted to obedience; though, it must be owned, Miss Grizzy Oldbuck was sometimes apt to _jibb_ when he pulled the reins too tight.
The Antiquary — Volume 01
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment. Robert Frost
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Apologizing for his hasty suggestion, JOH explained that a closer look at the patient's blood might provide a more accurate diagnosis.
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He scrawled a hasty note to his wife.
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The army beat a hasty retreat.
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He could see him setting type in the little printery, or scribbling endless hasty, nervous lines on the much-cluttered desk.
The Mexican
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So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in despatching his breakfast, as, ‘the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.’
Guy Mannering
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The move irked staff and the company was forced into a hasty retreat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said he had been banned from talking openly despite apologising to Mr Yacomeni and admitting he may have been hasty talking to the press.
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The quiet, unhasty, resolved manner in which the Chaplains to the Forces in France are moving is in striking contrast to the hasty proposals and hasty actions threatening on the less prepared soil at home.
The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918
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We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar.
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Other scenarios are about not jumping to the wrong, hasty conclusion: a lesson, it seems, we could all learn.
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She recalled his shrinking from the boys, and his hasty refusal to go to the homestead.
A Little Bush Maid
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Others have fallen as a result of their online behaviour, be it through hasty tweets or blog posts of a vitriolic nature equating to a public mud-slinging match, to the technological sex scandals from the likes of Vernon Kay and Jason Manford, to politicians such as Anthony Weiner.
Ambi Sitham: Keyboard Warriors and Trolls: Post in haste, Repent at Your Leisure
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Emma felt annoyance in regards to their current president, because of his hasty, hot-headed temperament.
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Especially in that the seasons have been proper to bring up and set forward other more hasty and indifferent plants, whereby this of knowledge bath been starved and overgrown; for in the descent of times always there hath been somewhat else in reign and reputation, which hath generally aliened and diverted wits and labours from that employment.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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And Italy is wondering if it was too hasty in ratifying it.
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She gulped down her drink and made a hasty exit.
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I then spotted him in the corner and beat a hasty retreat.
The Sun
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It just goes to show that it often pays long-term investors to wait patiently and avoid being panicked into hasty reactions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Officers beat a hasty retreat and the violence quickly spread.
The Sun
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Just as he was approaching the borders of Bactria, Alexander received news that made him regret his hasty decision to reappoint Satibarzanes as satrap of Aria.
Alexander the Great
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You'll have to do precisely that - unless you beat a hasty exit from the table.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heine says he's been forced to take his stock of the bath salts - worth thousands of dollars - off the shelves because of what he calls a hasty and wrong decision by the attorney general.
NPR Topics: News
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May be by twitting she can avoid that hasty talk on television!
Palin set to let the tweets 'fly'
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They can also combine with the scout platoon to engage enemy targets for hasty attacks and ambushes.
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A harbour is a valuable asset and it is to be hoped that no hasty decision is taken that we will regret later.
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And in the next second, or fraction of second, as Jerry lifted and soared through the air, over the barbed wire of the rail and overboard, while Sniders were being passed up overside from the canoes, Tambi fired his next hasty shot.
CHAPTER XI
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But isn't this a bit hasty?
Times, Sunday Times
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I then spotted him in the corner and beat a hasty retreat.
The Sun
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That way we may avoid the con-sequences of too-hasty action: global warming, unforeseen pollution, imbalances of supply and demand.
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All too often, hasty moves cut short what could have been an increasingly rewarding ministry.
Christianity Today
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She gulped down her drink and made a hasty exit.
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Mummy would be crossish, hasty, distracted; then briefly guilty, pliable; then gone again.
Land Divers
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Some warn against being overhasty.
The Star (South Africa)
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Both were hasty, erratic, impulsive men and capable of atrocious judgment.
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If the DRC is a story of overhasty exit, then Niger is a case study in delayed engagement.
Too little, too late for Niger
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A bit of shock, a few deflected mea culpas, a wringing of hands, a hasty flutter of robes andwhite vestments as, in church after church, the molesting priest slips behind the chancel, vanishes into thesacristy.
Dominus Vobiscum
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So at dawn on New Year's Day the Senate formally appointed Lucius Valerius Flaccus Princeps Senatus the first interrex and those men who intended to stand for election as consuls and praetors went into a flurry of hasty canvassing.
Fortune's Favorites
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Management convened a hasty conference call for investors last Friday.
Times, Sunday Times
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My hubby Bill gallantly stepped in to carry out a hasty repair.
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He climbed up the steps three at a time, gave a hasty good-bye to my dear relatives, told me he'd meet me at the hotel, and quickly scrammed.
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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 bartizans [Footnote: A bartizan is a sort of small overhanging balcony, built for defense or for lookout.] and points of defense.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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Those familiar with Bresson's oeuvre will know better than to jump to hasty conclusions.
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Challenged to a repeat bet over the next decade, Ehrlich beat a hasty retreat.
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Ursula Dean's palms were damp as panic pumped through her, escaping in hasty, shallow breathing and agitated heartbeats.
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One company is giving its employees airplane tickets in the event they need to make a hasty escape.
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He turned a callow youth, pale and hasty, into the most feared striker in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a society we have grown to accept hasty judgement and instant, severe punishment as the desirable norm.
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He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching, but it was not hasty enough.
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A rash action or a hasty decision at this time could have calamitous results.
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It is like that which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities and secret seeds of diseases.
XXV. Of Dispatch
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His backwardness in the university hath set him thus forward; for had he not truanted there, he had not been so hasty a divine.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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They are not only deep and rumbly, they are not at all hasty about departing.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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"Bible students" will be under significant pressure to make hasty decisions on the basis of carefully screened information.
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It was with a twitch of this kind, and a certain indescribable twinkle of his somewhat melancholy eye, as he seemed intuitively to form a hasty conception of the oddity of his appearance to a stranger unused to the bush, that he welcomed me to his clearing.
Roughing It in the Bush
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There is a possibility of love at first sight and even a hasty marriage.
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Officers beat a hasty retreat and the violence quickly spread.
The Sun
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The government machine went into hasty but shrewd action.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my hasty departure from home I had missed my ordination.
A Channel of Peace
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This autobiographical tale set in 1907 follows young Alexander and his sister Fanny as they struggle with their father's death and mother's hasty remarriage to an authoritarian clergyman.
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Sounds like the part-time vegetarians have been hasty in giving up their nut cutlets.
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Asmal warned against what he described as hasty and ill-considered responses to the national higher education plan.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
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Except for the twenty-four hours of biliousness, slippery guts and hasty exits that follow, it's all good.
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This, they hold, gives the man a chance to atone for any hasty decision he might have taken.
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It looked as though I had been a little too hasty in getting nervous about the play!
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It turns out that I may have been a bit hasty.
The Sun
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You should not be overhasty . Remember there's a matter of over ten thousand dollars at stake.
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Needless to say, I made a hasty retreat, kicking aside the wedge propping my kitchen door open so it slammed shut, keeping the rodent hopefully contained in one room.
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And she had a smile in her eyes, and a laugh on her lips; and her temper was not hasty, nor was she unmindful that men give the law and women ever obey.
THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
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Emma felt annoyance in regards to their current president, because of his hasty, hot-headed temperament.
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With these hasty adieux, Nicholas mounted nimbly to his seat, and waved his hand as gallantly as if his heart went with it.
Nicholas Nickleby
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Do I enter the loo to push the button for them or beat a hasty retreat?
Times, Sunday Times
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After the mezzotint has been in his office for some hours, Williams examines it again, thinking that perhaps he had been too hasty in his earlier dismissal of it.
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But isn't this a bit hasty?
Times, Sunday Times
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One of these, O'Rourke, had been the pioneer hemp planter and now enjoyed a big income; the other, a nervous, hasty young fellow named Boynton, had borne a reputation as a squawman that had deprived him of intimacy with his own kind, but had recently put his house in order and rehabilitated himself with those who found decency in clean living.
Terry A Tale of the Hill People
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When I did, it was to be tossed in a blanket, so that, though elevated, my survey was hasty and superficial; but I suspect that the entire furniture to which a colleger lays claim, is his bed and bureau, tables and chairs being here as much out of keeping (if they could be kept at all) as at Stonehenge.
Confessions of an Etonian
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Now that caution found its reward: a mark whose fat purse he remembered from the inn in Durham, where Neil had ordered up a hasty meal to be eaten in the saddle and the rider had heaved himself down from his mount and pulled out his bulging purse to toss a handful of coins to the ostler who ran up to tend the horse.
Shameless
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But then, instead of making a hasty retreat, they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions.
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A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
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The unfair and hasty decision of the court made a mockery of the trial.
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It is easy to call these changes by the name allotropism, but not the less do they confound our hasty generalizations.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.
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Herbaceous plants that are dying back may be prone to fungal attack and can look awful, but don't be too hasty.
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As the work was unfinished, I deemed it my duty, as editor, to supply such a hasty and inartificial conclusion as could be shaped out from the story, of which Mr. Strutt had laid the foundation.
Waverley
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Last evening, just as Mr. Benjamin Jarvis 'guests were dispersing, she had made a hasty engagement with Carver to meet her the following afternoon and go for kinnikinnick up Cinnamon Creek.
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
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Charlotte Bronte was a year in writing "Jane Eyre," spurred on to new effort by the recent rejection of "The Professor," but to write such a book in a year cannot be called overhasty production when one considers how much of "Jane Eyre" was drawn from Charlotte Bronte's own life, and also how she and her sisters had been experimenting with literature from their earliest childhood.
Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure
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Although this is the first time I have mentioned my plan of getting married, this was not a hasty overnight decision.
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A hasty military exit risks undermining it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I felt my heart begin to pound a bit faster, and took a hasty drink from my water glass to dispel my anxiety.
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The army beat a hasty retreat.
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Yet my instincts nonetheless warn me against a hasty campaign to adopt such an amendment.
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But the Prime Minister might have been a little hasty in serving notice to the Privy Council that "we are moving out."
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A 15 year old prostitute isn't a character I expected to see in the book, but the developement is good, although perhaps hasty at the start.
Archive 2007-07-01
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He soon regretted his hasty decision.
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Ursula Dean's palms were damp as panic pumped through her, escaping in hasty, shallow breathing and agitated heartbeats.
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Having forgotten his baseball cap in a hasty exit from his home after siesta, he has to make do with a flimsy local newspaper to fend off the Mesopotamian sun's hot temper.
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The King used to say, "My son is lazy; his temper is Polonese -- hasty and changeable; he has no tastes; he cares nothing for hunting, for women, or for good living; perhaps he imagines that if he were in my place he would be happy; at first, he would make great changes, create everything anew, as it were.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 2
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I thought this celebration might be a tad hasty and hubristic as there were still two cards to come.
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All too often, hasty moves cut short what could have been an increasingly rewarding ministry.
Christianity Today
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As I had already destined my old landlady to be my house-keeper and governante, knowing her honesty, good-nature, and, although a Scotchwoman, her cleanliness and excellent temper (saving the short and hasty expressions of anger which Highlanders call a FUFF), I now proposed the plan to her in such a way as was likely to make it most acceptable.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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She pressed a hasty kiss on my burning lips, giving and prolonging it with the violent voluptuousness of fear, as the spurred boots of her sweetheart made the wooden steps of the stairs creak, and the intriguer was in fear of losing her Dutch linen trousseau and her godroon silver pot.
The Queen Pedauque
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I made a hasty exit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet other calamities could occur that might frighten governments and regulators into taking hasty action.
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I now, in this hasty, feeble, and divaricated biographical sketch, approach the great and favourite work of my admired friend, _The
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829
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However, experience suggests that exacerbation of symptoms may result from overambitious or overhasty attempts at exercise.
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She finished her hasty packing and zipped up the bag.
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Now, I think your attack on Patrick is a bit hasty and rude.
Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The decision was not made in a hasty manner.
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One cannot altogether acquit Mr. Masefield of a hasty stylelessness in some of those long poems which the world has been raving about in the last year or two.
The Art of Letters