Example sentences for: hastened

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

  • Fear of loss of control and dignity, abandonment, being a burden, and physical suffering can be so strong that patients desire hastened death.

  • Federal Reserve officials then hastened to assure the press that a rise in interest rates was not in the offing, and that Greenspan's expressions of concern were merely expressions of concern.

  • The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy cats: the Mongol Timur the Lame, the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,” later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

  • You could handle them if you wore the white cotton gloves provided by the vigilant Sotheby's staff, who hastened over whenever you leaned your nose too near the chiffon or made too broad a gesture toward the embroidery.

  • The WP runs an AP report stating that the first national survey of physician-assisted suicide found that 6 percent of the front-line doctors responding have hastened patients' deaths with lethal injections or prescriptions.


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