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.
There were only a few rapids and they were extremely tame.
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.
It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.

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).
This viewpoint is of great significance as a guideline for the rapid development of socialist economy.
His rapid rise through the ranks after an eye-catching performance in the April trials was a rare highlight in a troubled season.
Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!
Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
It seems the interest in an intelligent house is rapidly growing.
On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
Retrieve the lure rapidly in skips and skitters over the tops of lily pads, along log edges, and above the weeds. Bait and Switch
India's reply was a total disaster, with wickets falling too rapidly due to run-outs.
It rapidly became evident that this clinic could not make even a dent in the problem.
The wide planing hull lends stability for easy shots down tough rapids, and the boat's upturned bow makes punching through big holes a cinch.
Prions tous pour nos propres pilotes à qui on a fait appel, pour une fin rapide des combats, et pour l'instauration d'un gouvernement de la Libye par les libyens qui respecte les droits de l'homme. Bishop Pierre Whalon: 'Just War' And The Intervention In Libya
The group rapidly bypassed disciplinary differences to focus on a common set of preferred aptitudes and abilities associated with critical thinking, reading, and writing.
The principle of the itinerary engine is simple: from a departure address and an arrival address, or from longitude/latitude coordinates, Maporama International's servers calculate an optimized itinerary, respecting several constraints: the shortest or the more rapid itinerary, a pedestrian or car itinerary, a multimodal itinerary Internet News: Travel Archives
The river up which we came after leaving the Helmund, is fully equal to that in size; it is very rapid: the ravine is very narrow, occasionally widening into swardy spots. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Starting this month, rival United Parcel Service Inc.'s freight division is raising average noncontractual shipping rates in North America by 6.9%, as the industry copes with rapidly rising fuel costs. FedEx to Raise U.S., Canada Freight Rates 6.8%
We had a rapid coffee.
Another movie might have had a rapid-fire exchange, a fight. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Although the number of rural ponds is decreasing rapidly, garden ponds are gaining in popularity and are becoming increasingly important habitats for toads, says the trust.
the news spread rapidly through the medical community
What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
Just as in the rest of medicine -- cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, etc., the field of psychiatry is ever changing and our knowledge base is rapidly expanding. Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship
Speaking in rapid, intense bursts, Smith expanded on his sometimes convoluted story.
Such rapid alternations of mood are a feature of her writing.
Ian Hecht at Marturia. net fires one of the first Terra Insegura reviews into the the blogosphere, and though he has some quibbles (not to be confused with tribbles – although both can multiply rapidly on occasion, tribbles are furrier), in general, he likes it. LeaderPost preview of Follies, avec moi
As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
She owns a home in Montgomery County, Md., a market where home values have been appreciating rapidly.
The old seamstress ruffled my skirt rapidly.
Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits.
Moreover, social values and structures have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Such a child will rapidly thrive once an appropriate nutritional diet is provided.
Some crops such as corn are very heavy feeders so moving it from place to place prevents rapid depletion of the soil.
They come into existence after relatively brief periods of rapid change in a small sub-population of a pre-existing species.
Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone.
Conclusion Laparoscopic pyloromyotomy has characteristics of safety, minimal invasion and rapid recovery. What's more, it has satisfying cosmetic effect. It's worth routinely carrying out.
'Cedar Rapids' The main thing about "Cedar Rapids" is that it makes you laugh — often and out loud. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
The success of the operation was entirely due to his example and his rapid appreciation of the situation. Times, Sunday Times
It has no influence of ocean depth, positions accurately and rapidly and operates expediently.
This is rapidly emerging as a deeply divisive political issue, although it has yet to burst into the open. Times, Sunday Times
The rapid change in temperature can lead to chilblains and dry skin.
I have had a number of patients in my practice that had their first episode of rapid heart action and palpitation during pregnancy.
Semi-autonomous vehicles are expected to witness a rapid growth over the forecast timeline owing to the driving assistance features.
The rapid tone changes often resembled a shopping list of styles from other series. Times, Sunday Times
This class may be made to print much more rapidly than our ordinary silver printing process, approaching sometimes more nearly to the calotype development in this respect. Photographic Reproduction Processes
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
The Red Army would then move with great rapidity to concentrate against one enemy division.
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
He identifies higher infrastructure spending and a rapidly expanding middle class as two key factors behind this growth. Times, Sunday Times
The numbers of those on the waiting lists for housing has grown rapidly, as have the numbers of homeless in Britain.
We heard the rapid crackle of automatic gunfire.
In the 1940s, Tarski joined in this development of equational logic; the subject progressed rapidly from the 1950s till the present time. The Algebra of Logic Tradition
En la sama momento papilio, kiu sidis proksime de ni sur la barilo kaj jen etendis, jen altiris siajn rugxajn flugiletojn kun argxenta subajxo, rapide levigxis kaj transflugis al la germana flanko. The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians
Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter. From the archives: Skating through life
Sweating and red-faced, he'd stood in the middle of the hall, the tea slopping over the marble in a red tide and the newspaper rapidly disintegrating in the currents.
These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
In abdominal disease the symptom is particularly associated with rapid enlargement of an encapsulated organ or distension of a hollow viscus.
The heat of the place was remarkable; I felt my collar grow soft and hoped that my appearance would not deteriorate too rapidly. ANTI-ICE
Its ills have largely been the result of the rapid growth in popularity of online movie rental and download services. Times, Sunday Times
The ejecta are still moving rapidly, however, and quickly sweep up surrounding matter to form a shell that slows down as mass gets accumulated, an action similar to that of a snowplow.
The new 100% Proficiency scheme has also brought an added bonus - a rapid reduction in the amount of waste materials during training.
The film shows the rapidity of the changes in this area of medicine.
It was a very rapid change. Times, Sunday Times
Since this century was also an era of rapid urbanization, the question of how courts and capital cities got along with each other is of considerable interest. The Times Literary Supplement
- Preston Zimmerman - Kapfenberg - went the distance but lost 0-2 at home to Rapid Wien. Du Nord
But all of that stands to be snuffed out, they say there, if this security situation is not brought under control rapidly, and if the reconstruction is not sped up markedly and very soon.
Just how rapid the early stages of recovery can be is shown for Anomodon viticulosus in Fig.3.
It closes very rapidly and has considerable momentum.
Stub acme thread on stem provides rapid open - close operation.
For all of these goods, product cycles are truncated by rapid innovation.
Soon the guard - about half a dozen soldiers and NCOs in all - marched out with an extremely rapid step and exaggerated movements; they came to a halt with a massive goose-step.
Market timing occurs when traders make rapid in-and-out trades in unit trusts to take advantage of pricing inefficiencies.
Taiwan underwent rapid social and economic development following the Second World War.
This has some important potential benefit, but the ways in which data is collected and used are evolving rapidly. Times, Sunday Times
However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
shaps," or overalls, he wore the trousers of civilization, which the rapid night had hitched half-way to his knees. Empire Builders
The consequences would be a rapid, continuous, and sizable escalation of oil prices in the short and long term.
An. darlingi proteins were found that match culicine but not anopheline proteins, indicating loss or rapid evolution of these proteins in the old world Cellia subgenus. BioMed Central - Latest articles
The result is families under siege, war in the streets, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit.
Interest in golf has grown rapidly in the last ten years.
Her rapid pulse, high blood pressure, irregular breathing, and bluish discoloration of the skin all called for life-saving measures.
Some of the most rapidly growing towns in the mid-nineteenth century were the very antithesis of industrial centres: these were the seaside resorts, fashionable spas, and tourist attractions, such as Rome.
Your enthusiasm is infectious; it spreads as rapidly through conversations as it does through bloodlines.
The company is stepping up investment in support of its rapid sales growth. The Sun
With the rapid development of PC, USB will replace RS-232 applied in nuclear instruments.
The squall line was rapidly moving east and I had to come up with another plan quickly.
The Lao-Nong River has some challenging rapids that will put Ironman contestants to the test next week.
In order to most rapidly re-employ all Americans and to speed a strong recovery, the president must change course. Romney lays out plan to fix economy
In a bunt, the aircraft experiences a rapid, uncontrolled, tight forward pitching rotation.
The euro zone's long-term woes are arguably greater than Britain's, and its inflation less rapid. 'Dear Chancellor'
Its ills have largely been the result of the rapid growth in popularity of online movie rental and download services. Times, Sunday Times
The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
The goal of Mass Rapid Transit system is to provide good service quality.
A few have performed better than expected—e.g., the auto bailouts, although a rapid private bankruptcy was preferable and GM and Chrysler are not yet denationalized successes. The Obama Presidency by the Numbers
Correction of craniofacial deficits with implants is a rapidly advancing discipline.
Garcia, king of Leon, began a rapid expansion of his domain to the east (construction of numerous castles, hence the name Castile). 3. Christian Spain, Castile and Leon
If the distribution channel is selected incorrectly, the brand will decline rapidly.
How these systems may respond to the rapid and major global warming predicted over the coming century is uncertain but largely dependent on whether coral-algal symbioses can adjust to decadal rather than millennial rates of climate change.
The rapidly rising numbers of people with low back pain, for example, implies a sociological rather than biological cause.
From rowing lake and canoe rapids to velodrome and swimming pool, the cheers of frenzied spectators have been spine-tingling. The Sun
The mild rapids turn to riffles and become fewer and fewer from here to the takeout.
With industrialism, many people found social roles changing rapidly, and began to ask whether those roles could not be changed further.
The addition of acrylic gloss medium to the paint reduces its consistency to produce thin layers which dry rapidly. Acrylics Masterclass
the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China
A delicate balance of smoulder and sensitivity that's best experienced on YouTube, where the track has rapidly earned a million views. F&M playlist
At nerve terminals, stimulus-evoked calcium entry triggers transmitter release through rapid, regulated exocytosis of readily releasable synaptic vesicles.
Growth, being exponential in nature, will rapidly swamp the essentially linear savings by efficiency gains. Times, Sunday Times
Since back to school time is rapidly approaching, here are answers to the four most common questions we get from parents about allowances.
A wealthy, mysterious Englishman named Henry Philips arrived in the port and rapidly gained Tyndale's trust, and hence access to the Pointz household.
A small red light blinked, indicating that the water level was rapidly falling.
Industrialization in rural areas has increased, and has been more rapid than in metropolitan areas.
As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
The crisis among toymakers is the first visible evidence of the country's rapid economic slowdown. Times, Sunday Times
On return to air these leaves wilted and yellowed rapidly.
He lit a cigarette and took a swig of the alcohol and grinned at me, a grin that was rapidly becoming a leer.
But the teams are rapidly running out of alternative explanations for these events.
By detecting how far apart the partners are and how rapidly they orbit each other, scientists can determine the mass, volume, and composition of the binary asteroids.
As the slope steepens, warm, moist air overrunning the cold air is cut off and the precipitation coverage begins to rapidly decrease.
Ms. Clarke, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was a single mom in her 20s who held down odd jobs while indulging her "fun hobby" of putting together fashion shows at the local mall. A Different Kind of Girl Scout
Shareholders should remember that opportunities do not end at Dover and consider international diversification into some of the most rapidly growing economies in the world. Times, Sunday Times
Anaxagoras compounded this heresy by alleging that the stars were insensate bodies as well, stones carried in orbit by the rapid movement of the heavens and that occasionally a stone might detach itself to become a falling star.
Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. WN.com - Articles related to Sleep debt
In warm weather these germs multiply rapidly.
PLC is planning a listing in an Asian manufact uring titan, one which has rapidly become the economic nucleus of the world. StanChart's Shanghai IPO: Japan Or India Redux?
Meditation taught me not to overidentify with my flickering, rapidly altering emotional states, but rather view them as visiting wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
The crowds which have been passing to and fro during the whole day, are rapidly dwindling away; and the noise of shouting and quarrelling which issues from the public – houses, is almost the only sound that breaks the melancholy stillness of the night. Sketches by Boz
It is worth adding to this risk assessment of 17D that those having repeat 17D vaccination probably have little to fear as they can be expected to make an anamnestic response to 17D that will rapidly suppress viraemia.
There are river rapids along this trail with jumping fish and diving otters.
Rapid production of such large amounts of material clearly has profound effects on the land round the volcano.
The rapid arpeggios of the guitar tailed away, and the tenor began an arietta. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The rapid expansion of administrative rulemaking may also be a factor.
A number of new technologies will enable much more rapid development than was previously possible.
They were thus capable of rapid and radical reshaping. Times, Sunday Times
Such rapid alternations of mood are a feature of her writing.
The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
In 1969, he was elected to the presidency of the Association of Chambers of Commerce in Turkey, a highly influential and semipolitical position, but his Islamist policies led to his rapid ejection from the post by Demirel, by then prime minister. The Guardian World News
NASA funding would be adequate to engage in concurrent engineering for our new systems and programs if the people knew the potential impact of not rapidly developing our capabilities and understanding of the space environment. Alan Stern on NASA's Cost Increase Problems - NASA Watch
Courtenay's aristocratic connections carried him rapidly up the ladder of preferment.
In addition to such verbalized utterances there will be a number of sighs, suspirations, and ritual gestures: rapid and repeated finger tapping, holding of the head in one hand, or two hands, and so forth.
Since silica can only limit diatoms, other forms of phytoplankton might dominate if nitrogen is regenerated more rapidly.
Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
The loops give adequate access for the worker to heat the glass on the pontil rods, especially on breezy days when the cool air can harden the glass very rapidly, giving you little or no time to work it.
He won an accordion from a Chinese barkeep in Luna City by cheating at onethumb and thereafter kept going by singing to the miners for drinks and tips until the rapid attrition in spacemen caused the Company agent there to give him another chance. The Past Through Tomorrow
The results of a VDRL test and rapid plasma reagin were negative.
Both the perissodactyls and artiodactyls underwent a period of rapid evolution during the Miocene.
He said the lyrics just tumbled out of his head in one continuous, rapid stream. The Sun
Because of its size, tasty meat, valuable leather, and rapid reproduction, the capybara is a candidate for both ranching and intensive husbandry throughout the hot and humid lowland tropical regions of Latin America. 15 Agouti
Over the years Michele's designs continued to evolve from napkin holders and bracelets to earrings, necklaces, chokers and hair accessories at a rapid pace.
Once respiratory or renal disease develops, the course is usually rapidly progressive.
It should be stated further that in the case of "seppuku," as soon as the act of cutting the abdomen had been completed, always by a single rapid stroke, someone from behind would, with a single blow, behead the victim. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
But the difficulty of going at what I call a rapid pace, is prodigious; it is almost an impossibility. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
EIA's symptoms include wheezing, coughing, prolonged expiration, rapid heart rate and tightness of the chest.
If anyone wants to watch the rapid self-demolition of a mudfish, as I did with with clinical fascination, go here. Archive 2009-11-01
Tragic cases like these simply scratch the surface of a society that appears to be in rapid decline. The Sun
Monkeys have a minor version of our tendency to use the left brain for listening carefully to rapid sound sequences.
The rapid expansion in 90-92, combined with the recession, did a lot of harm financially, and the company finally went bankrupt.
It predicts that spindle microtubules in animal cells begin to oscillate at the beginning of prometaphase, and that those oscillations rapidly accelerate until metaphase,. Wells vs tiny flies - The Panda's Thumb
Banks and businesses had been rapidly reviving business activities in China.
A portage is a place between lakes and rivers where the waters become so shallow or rapid that they cannot be navigated, and the boats have to be lifted ashore and carried overland until it is possible to take to the water again. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
China's ability to sustain its rapid economic growth relies on having access to affordable natural resources. Times, Sunday Times
In other comparable countries real wages increased much more rapidly.
The Monkees played a post-game concert there after a Rapids match.
labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion
The resources required to deliver a combination of projects of road building, laying out of street grids, the provision of forums, basilicas, public baths, etc. were not such as to lead to a rapid execution.
But the muscles follow immediately in their development and rapidly gain volume and tonicity, filling out the arms, legs, back and shoulders with large masses of firm muscular tissue. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
The streets were empty of ‘decent folk’ and were rapidly filling with a different sort altogether.
Others stress that rapid automatized naming is part of a more general phonological ability and poor readers are considered to be less adept at retrieving phonological codes from long-term memory.
She was blinking rapidly to keep the tears back, aware it was no time for tears. A Plague of Angels
‘Where hogweeds have established themselves, their aggressive growth and large size mean they rapidly out-compete our native plant species,’ Barratt said.
In other words, the problem was that the election process was so tainted that it feared its attempts to whitewash the poll would be rapidly exposed.
On the Downbelows' debut, Toronto punk vets (ex-members of Trigger Happy, Tirekickers, et al.) gang together for an ode to their favourite rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood.
Mechanical weathering is rapid in cold desert regions.
The stupor becomes rapidly more marked, the eyes become puffy and swollen with excessive lacrimation, so that the tears run from the internal canthus of the eye over the cheeks and may blister the skin in their course. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The speed of her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.
Without them even knowing, the anti-establishment was rapidly becoming the establishment.
The influences of rapidly changing signals to human perception can be stressed by filtering the relative spectra(RASTA) for MFCC.
Britain's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age.
Zachriel: Rapid climate change will result in agricultural failure, flooding of highly populated coastal areas, dislocation, disease, migration, mass extinctions, political instability and human suffering. About: Blinded by Science
The leader rapidly tapped in the combination that opened the door and switched off the alarms.
The rapid electrical pulse induces very short-lived micropores in the plasma membrane, allowing DNA to enter the cell.
Had he not presided over five years of rapid and uninterrupted growth, the most sustained performance by the British economy on record? After Thatcher
With the rapidly development of stockbreeding in the whole world, law system of the veterinary drugs gradually emerges its limitation, and it obviously drops behind the developed countries.
As if to affirm this truth, she rapidly knitted five more rows in one minute flat.
According to the authors, social interactions are cognitively complex experiences that may lead to rapid fatigue in brain regions that regulate attention and alertness.
Kozel yelled, and the shuttle decelerated rapidly, for a moment overpowering the inertial dampers. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
We look hopefully at markings on our map like Pablo's Rapid and Dead Man Rapid, but they prove to be little more than riffles and a slight acceleration in the current.
The next stage of satellite development will accelerate this trend rapidly.
In some states, the first frost has sparked a rush on rebates for heating equipment and funding for all appliances is rapidly melting away. Cash for appliances: Consumers snatch up rebates during cold snap
The rock liner for the junction pockets is glasslike due to the rapidity with which it cooled during formation.
Rapid Technology posted a 27% slip in revenues yesterday to 1.24 million for the six months to end of December.
The rapid rise of the republic challenges every new generation of historians to formulate new explanations.
A boomburb is a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area.. Consumer Reports Morning Update
The main cause for the decline of foxes on Santa Catalina Island is the rapid spread of canine distemper, which is transmitted by dogs.
The respect in which the synedrial president was held rapidly increased; like Christian patriarchs under Mahometan rule, he was also recognised by the imperial government as the municipal head of the Jews of Palestine, and bore the secular title of the old high priests (nasi, ethnarch, patriarch). Prolegomena

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