rapid

How To Use rapid In A Sentence

• The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
• The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• It appears well evident that the above mentioned compound is rapidly absorbed by the nasal mucosa into the systemic hematic circulation without first-pass metabolism.
• There were only a few rapids and they were extremely tame.
• The strategy is to get water to be absorbed by the outer layer of skin, the stratum corneum and then to seal the water in the skin before it evaporates (which it will do rapidly).
• Moreover, social values and structures have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• But it is precisely the familiarity of the urban terrain to those who live there that enables them to use it to the advantages of ambushes, surprise attacks and rapid redeployment.
• What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
• She owns a home in Montgomery County, Md., a market where home values have been appreciating rapidly.
• It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.