Example sentences for: sped

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

  • Thus, the ‘knockout’ mutations were clearly beneficial because they sped up adaptation to a new phenotypic optimum by releasing hidden genetic variation, thereby providing a new substrate upon which natural selection may act.

  • "Great stuff," agrees Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Robert Novak (CNN's Capital Gang ) is "very proud of the president," though he believes China's evolution into a free state will not be sped by lectures.

  • Wednesday, several Iraqi fighter jets zipped into the "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq, encountered U.S. and British warplanes, and sped away without firing.

  • The Web has sped up the news cycle (just as the telephone did at the turn of the century), but good reporting is still good reporting.

  • This has limited federal involvement in state cases and, more importantly, sped up the judicial process.


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