How To Use Hurry In A Sentence

You may not be able to hurry love, but it seems you can speed up divorce proceedings with the push of a button. Times, Sunday Times
Hurry up and get to the point!
in a hurry to lock the door
In his hurry to leave the room, he tripped over a chair.
I wish they would hurry up their work, otherwise I have to work extra hours with them.

We must hurry. Time is of the essence.
Hurry forward there, please—there are people waiting behind you.
Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive. This Is the End
Why are some small/medium-sized companies in such a hurry to act like big stupid companies?
It seems that he is in a tearing hurry to take sole credit for the successes that Indian hockey achieved in the recent past.
It's no good hurrying into learning the piano; it's a long slow job.
Hurry up! It would be a shame to miss the beginning of the play.
Joe Wilson is a boring buffoon from a district where the federal pork barrel has been flowing for years but, that could stop in a hurry with such an idiot representing the district. Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say
Hurry up or we'll miss the train.
And of course we will conveniently forget that we forced him to hurry his conclusions and abandon the meticulousness with which it is necessary to proceed when searching for the truth.
Don't hurry a love relationship that needs time to reach its full potential. The Sun
Too many young people hurry into marriage without considering the responsibilities.
A pitch of consistent bounce and enough pace to hurry the ball on to the bat aided confident strokeplay.
And she laid her hand caressively on Kate’s arm, then rose to hurry away to the servants. The Plumed Serpent
They were in a hurry to set off.
Don't hurry; there's plenty of time.
She collects stones to weigh down her basket, but as there is no hurry she falls asleep on the bank.
We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side. Orrain A Romance
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva is not a man in a hurry.
Stop dawdling and hurry up: we're late.
“The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart,” said De Bracy. Ivanhoe
At last he suffered vows to be put up for his good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit. De vita Caesarum
I hate to hurry you, but I have to leave in a few minutes.
Expecting to have to moderate their pace so as not to overstride their diminutive hosts, the travelers found themselves having to hurry to keep up, so swift were the Swick's feathered earthbound mounts. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
I duly called this software support line, trying to hurry through the process as quickly as possible.
Yet he is in no hurry to rush home. Times, Sunday Times
The management is sounding out options for the German retail bank and is not in a hurry to reach a decision.
I could never see Dr. Sofen making some crack about how she paraphrased "has to hurry back for some marathon sex with a dockhand. THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007
He always goes through the whole performance of checking the oil and water even if we're in a hurry.
It is especially useful if you are always in a hurry, because the headband ensures that none of your own hair is visible.
The recap: Stop briefly, extend your arm, hurry away.
Hurry up! The taxi is out front.
All hurry or bustle is peculiarly painful to the sick. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Hurry or you'll be late for school.
The benefit of this hybrid form for the writer is that it frees up the texture of the book, avoiding the build-up of clogging documentation, and allows him to hurry over or emphasise themes at will. A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
Hence the term wiki--coined a decade ago by programmer Howard Cunningham--which means "hurry quick" in Hawaiian. Entrepreneurs, Start Your Wikis
What is the mortal hurry in the hearing of the application seeking withdrawal of the case?
As I straightened up I was jostled, very slightly, by Doreen and her companion, hurrying to get past.
No harvest can be enlarged by frantic hurrying about. Christianity Today
I can see how those who would be looking forward to a refund might want to hurry up and get their papers in order.
If he didn't hurry, there would be nowhere to hide, and he and Anne would surely die.
Come on boys, hurry up and finish your food, we're closing in a minute.
Then she went to the tutorial college, to hurry things up. Times, Sunday Times
The hustle and hurry of the job persist in a surreal atmosphere of expectation and denial.
In my hurry to finish the exam I had overlooked part of one of the questions.
Not only is this a crisis of huge proportions but one that is not going to be sorted out in a hurry. Times, Sunday Times
But my auld een's drawing thegither -- dinna hurry yoursell, my bonny man, tak mind about the putting out the candle, and there's a horn of ale, and a glass of clow-gillie-flower water; I dinna gie ilka body that; I keep it for a pain I hae whiles in my ain stamach, and it's better for your young blood than brandy. Old Mortality, Complete
There is too much hurry and worry in the lives of parents, and they don't have the energy left to cope when things go a little haywire.
We'd better hurry or we'll be in for it.
IN A world where practically everyone is in a hurry, there's a growing demand for instant solutions.
Alana left in a hurry, leaving Angela wondering if her Mom had any sane friends left in Fallon Creek.
He honked to hurry me up down the stairs.
Being seated, she proceeded, still with an air of hurry and embarrassment, to open her cabas, to take out her books; and, while I was waiting for her to look up, in order to make out her identity — for, shortsighted as I was, I had not recognized her at her entrance — Mdlle. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown. Within a Budding Grove
The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
What is your technique for hurrying things along? Times, Sunday Times
Make sure you hurry back before dusk. Times, Sunday Times
A client company might want new computers and telephones dispatched in a hurry. Times, Sunday Times
Slow down - the more you hurry a shot, the worse you will play leading to more tension and pressure.
Serve this lady first-I'm in no hurry.
He gets around the pitch and makes people hurry their passes. Times, Sunday Times
She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
There is no hurry to get the play on. The Other Side of Me
Lyndon knew that I was concerned in the plot, for I met her hurrying the next day to the Castle; all the town being up about the enlevement. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the The Golf Course Mystery
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas
You'll make it if you hurry.
I quickly scrabbled off the floor and ran to the bathroom; stripping off my clothes in a hurry.
For Gawd's sake hurry up!
Hurrying out with a profound sense of failure, she brushed by a man watching from the stairs of the rehearsal studio.
Who was that strange looking lady with the colourful bonnet hurrying along the road and what was that peeping out of her basket?
He babbled his apologies in a hurry.
Our allotted hour has long since elapsed, but she is in no hurry to go. Times, Sunday Times
He has little time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. Sole Music
Hurry retrace room takes medical case.
Animals might mature faster: a pressurised poultry house, for example, could hurry chickens to earlier adulthood.
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas
Ask him to hurry up with those letters so that we can send them off today.
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
The Prime Minister of Fiji has said Fiji is in no hurry to rejoin the Common-wealth.
Aware that families missing loved ones are in more of a hurry than they are, experienced rebel negotiators have become expert in applying psychological pressure.
The meal was put in the wagon, the horse unhitched, the wagon mounted, the goad picked up and a thrust made, but dobbin was in no hurry. A Study Of Hawthorne
We were in a hurry so we decided to bypass Canterbury because we knew there'd be a lot of traffic.
The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again.
Now hurry up! I haven't got all day.
We see an anxious looking woman hurrying along a busy street.
He insists that he'll not be in a particular hurry - though he neglects to mention whether he'll pick it up a gear if, approaching Loch Lomond, he realises that the Lions are about to kick off.
I was late for the match and in a tearing hurry.
And he looked in a hurry to make up for lost time as two goals in the opening half-hour effectively put this game to bed. The Sun
Mr Robarts escaped to the Dragon of Wantly, partly because he had had enough of the matutinal Mrs Proudie, and partly also in order that he might hurry his friends there. Framley Parsonage
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
He gestured to his friend to hurry over, and Hank broke into a lope.
Th 'car things screeched an' rulled an 'the folks -- the wimmen wi' awfu 'stern wheeler hats, an' the men -- hurryin '-- hurryin'! The Freebooters of the Wilderness
Franklin told Howe to hurry up and take his bath; otherwise, they'd miss their train.
I'm in no hurry to see him again.
hurry--it's late!
She won't forget that in a hurry.
Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up. Gatlinburg
But even though the advisers would have loved it to be done in the next 10 minutes, George said, ‘What's the hurry?’
With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
With their hooked beaks they would scoop out small fish and algae and then gobble it up in a hurry.
I'm in a hurry, so come to the point.
Hurry, she must be thinking, hurry up and finish, I'm drunk and need a bed for the night and they'll be along with the money for the letters soon, so get on with it and spend your spunk, you great ugly lout of a dockhand ... Ripping Time
Owner piece, I inform you and still reserve letting to make the childe come behind in a hurry, don't with Vinaceous Rosefinch soldier fasten attach.
Michael came hurrying towards Sean at the top of the aisle and took Noreen's other arm.
But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights. Theaetetus
You'll be in time if you hurry.
On Wednesday and Thursday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan seemed in a hurry to give his worldly belongings to a neighbor.
But remember, all those ropes and winches and seafaring clutter have an important function, and the crew will certainly need to be able to get to them (sometimes in a hurry).
Hurry up, or you'll be late for class.
We are pressed for time; we must hurry up.
Goes, has gone in a hurry, the wish detains is also in vain however, the cosmic inventory all have the rule which one live, nobody can change.
Mr. Satterthwaite floundered wildly in Italian interspersed with German -- the nearest he could get in the hurry of the moment to Spanish - He was desolated and ashamed, he explained haltingly. Autumn Maze
I was in a hurry and I forgot to attach an important document.
The _agitato finale_ means the close of the passage with a hurrying movement. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature
She won't forget that in a hurry.
You should make sure that getting to the toilet in a hurry is easy and perhaps consider having a commode in your bedroom.
No need to hurry," Ben said casually.
Please hurry up command to save at least half an hour for other dry run.
The sooner you do that the sooner we can make a quick decision and hurry you on your way.
Fear motivates us to drive cautiously even when in a great hurry, and fear makes a diabetic adhere to his diet and take his insulin daily.
In my hurry to finish the exam I had overlooked part of one of the questions.
Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.
Donald said, what can one do, and we both pretended to shrug it off, to hurry away.
Henceforth, my friend," said he, "moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your own safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and, above all, take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Will your majesty permit me to call the footman, and ask him to hurry up the postilion?" said Madame von Berg, leaning out of the window. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
'To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Froomkin: A Blow Against Tyranny
He's a good worker but he needs hurrying up.
We left in a hurry and I must have left my keys behind.
In my hurry to finish the exam I had overlooked part of one of the questions.
The weather in southwestern Germany, with its mountain peaks and rolling hills, can turn nasty in a hurry.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Winston Churchill
In a confused sort of way -- as if I had dreamed it -- I remember that Nora came flying down the stairs in her dressing-gown and bare feet, and nurse hurrying behind her, both crying out in a frightened way, -- something like, "Oh, _lawkes_! what _have_ them boys been doin '?" and, "Oh, boys, _boys_! what _is_ the matter? We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
I wish he'd hurry up and make his mind up.
Sorry, I haven't got time to do it now-I'm in a hurry.
If you are in a hurry, I would recommend the spaghetti or the pilaf.
One afternoon as I woke up from a nap, I looked at the watch, laced my shoes in a hurry and ran to the bus-stop.
Don't visit this venue if you are in a tearing hurry.
He gets around the pitch and makes people hurry their passes. Times, Sunday Times
She babbled her thanks in a great hurry.
The original plans, necessarily produced in a tearing hurry, had to be modified.
Some hurry the process by applying lanolin dressing. Times, Sunday Times
I wish you'd hurry up and tell me what to do,'said Chen Yueh - ngo.
Please hurry and try to get this resolved as soon as possible. The Sun
They hurry-scurry hitched a white flag after we warned.
Brenner left him, with an admonition to hurry, and himself went back to the Audi. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
People in a hurry can fuel up their cars and themselves in one stop.
It was like a big lorry going past in a hurry. The Sun
Brett said brusquely, shutting the passenger side door and hurrying around to open his own.
I was in a hurry and had no time to wander its paths, but caught only a glimpse of brilliant pink tulips incandescing in the spring sun.
I know he a slowpoke, I wonder why did he so hurry to the airport?
They had to hurry him away to a monastery. The Catalans
I hate having to hurry a meal.
We left in a hurry and I must have left my keys behind.
The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand. The Aeneid of Virgil
He appeared to be in a spasmodic sort of hurry.
Petter saw no reason to hurry the divorce along.
Hurry up! I haven't got all day!
The animal howl continued, as cadets and chaperones alike began to hurry about, locked in blind panic.
I pretended to be looking up St. John the Baptist but then turned over in a hurry to the L 's while she was washing her chalkboards. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise. "...my music is also seductive, even spiritual"
I'm in no hurry to seem him again.
On the opposite side of the house, several hundred yards away, the country turnpike ran; and from this there now reached them the rumbling of many vehicles, hurrying in close procession out of the nearest town and moving toward smaller villages scattered over the country; to its hamlets and cross-roads and hundreds of homes richer or poorer -- every vehicle Christmas-laden: sign and foretoken of the Bride of the Mistletoe
They walked quickly, as though in a hurry to complete some urgent assignment.
Don't drive so fast; there's no hurry.
He pushed the elevator button a few more times to hurry it up.
We strongly recommend the Olive Branch for lunch, whether you are in a hurry or not.
Alice said a quick hello and tried to hurry into the front room, but Duvall called her back.
I'm in a hurry.
We need to hurry or we'll miss our flight .
This washhandstand had been made of deal by some one with an excess of turnery appliances in a hurry, who had tried to distract attention from the rough economies of his workmanship by an arresting ornamentation of blobs and bulbs upon the joints and legs. In the Days of the Comet
The U.S. boom has softened a bit lately, easing some of the pressure on central bankers in both countries to hurry up and raise rates.
Blodwen sniffed and ordered her helpers to hurry before the sun did any more damage to their wares. GOODBYE CURATE
Hurry up — it's almost time for school.
Hurry up. Tie up your shoelaces; we are late.
I looked up and saw Jamila hurrying towards me in black T-shirt and white shorts.
The bend meadow is in no hurry; it will take corn, I guess. The Hills of the Shatemuc
Last summer several British drivers caught hurrying on their way to Le Mans were each fined 750 euros, an eye-watering £500.
Hurry! hurry! the police will come in no time; help the box down; throw it into the car.
Why are you in a hurry?
You kind of wish the characters would just hurry up and get where they're going already.
Fish splashed in small pools and the sweet scent of the river hurrying by charmed our days.
I had to wash and dress in a hurry.
I ran after him, bumping against people in my hurry.
The problems of traffic congestion will not disappear in a hurry.
Down in a coal black tunnel, Sir, I hurry corves to earn my pay. Testimony of Patience Kershaw
While it may appear that these changes are recent vintage, medical researchers in the 1960's described a stress syndrome ( "Type A Behavior Pattern") which included polyphasic thinking that tried to keep pace with the "time urgent/hurry sickness" accelerated pace of life. Stephen Josephson: Do Social Websites Hurt Kids' Brains? Give Me a Break!
Fear motivates us to drive cautiously even when in a great hurry, and fear makes a diabetic adhere to his diet and take his insulin daily.
You have to be downtown in a hurry.
Another factor pushed them to hurry the project: the need to get their ducks in a row before they ran out of time.
Shoo-shooed along, we hurry through the Palm Room a remnant of the old Conservatory? and down the curved drive on the south front of the White House and into the wet, unmown grass of the South Lawn where the press riser awaits; the white rope we are not to touch jumps up and down on its own accord. Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
Sarwan settled quickly and seemed in a hurry to score runs as he flashed a cut through the slips for four.
A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry.

How To Use Hurry In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):