SPEEDY in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for SPEEDY, such as:
1. The conference came to a speedy end.
2. I never left there hungry, no matter how great the need of my speedy return.
3. They've raised serious objections, removing any hope of a speedy breakthrough.
4. We have been dizzied by the speedy development of the new and hight technology.
5. A baseball player who is not a speedy runner can compensate by powerful hitting.
2. I never left there hungry, no matter how great the need of my speedy return.
3. They've raised serious objections, removing any hope of a speedy breakthrough.
4. We have been dizzied by the speedy development of the new and hight technology.
5. A baseball player who is not a speedy runner can compensate by powerful hitting.
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Meanings and Examples of SPEEDY
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speedy
a. accomplished rapidly and without delay
a. characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 India bowed coldly and, putting her hand upon the door knob, intimated silently that his speedy retirement would be welcome.
2 Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.
3 Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity.
4 Nothing but the most prompt, speedy and extreme punishment can hold in check the horrible and beastial propensities of the Negro race.
5 That which at first was only rumor, soon became certainty, as orders passed from the quarters of the commander-in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departure.
6 Their common superior, so far from encouraging them to resist, advised a speedy surrender, urging in the plainest language, as a reason, the utter impossibility of his sending a single man to their rescue.
7 From the shock of this unexpected blow the haughty feelings of Munro never recovered; but from that moment there commenced a change in his determined character, which accompanied him to a speedy grave.
8 I never left there hungry, no matter how great the need of my speedy return.
9 There was sudden change from the ponderous infantry of theory to the light and speedy infantry of practice.
10 Marianne severely censured herself for what she had said; but her own forgiveness might have been more speedy, had she known how little offence it had given her sister.
11 Mr. Harris, who attended her every day, still talked boldly of a speedy recovery, and Miss Dashwood was equally sanguine; but the expectation of the others was by no means so cheerful.
12 All that remained to be done was to be speedy; and, therefore staying only till she could leave Mrs. Jennings's maid with her sister, she hurried down stairs.
13 A speedy cure must not be hoped, but everything was going on as well as the nature of the case admitted.
14 There was no promise of a speedy departure in his composed bearing and his comfortable attitude.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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15 I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival at Bald Hills with his wife.
Example Sentence:
1 The conference came to a speedy end.
2 We have been dizzied by the speedy development of the new and hight technology.
3 A baseball player who is not a speedy runner can compensate by powerful hitting.
4 They've raised serious objections, removing any hope of a speedy breakthrough.