Example sentences for: haste

How can you use “haste” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But these sounds are meant to be said in haste and slurred slightly, so that whew comes across as a half-whistled expulsion of breath, not a precise word with the wh of what and the ew of ewer .

  • One little pelican was abandoned by his parents in their haste to start a second mating and nesting in the same season.

  • Whereas Ben Bradlee served as Post editor-for-life, the Times places an informal term limit on its executive editor job, and this turnover has helped to reinvigorate the paper: Times executive editors know they must make their mark in haste, before their tenure is over.

  • I take responsibility, apologize for my haste, and accept your raised eyebrow.

  • Such was Starr's haste that he had to use a different grand jury--one that has never previously handled the Lewinsky matter--to hear the testimony.


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