CELERITY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CELERITY, such as:
1. D'Artagnan was therefore served with miraculous celerity.
2. Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case.
3. Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.
4. They slid down behind it with remarkable celerity, and from this position they began briskly to slice up the blue men.
5. As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
2. Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case.
3. Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.
4. They slid down behind it with remarkable celerity, and from this position they began briskly to slice up the blue men.
5. As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
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Meanings and Examples of CELERITY
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celerity
n. swiftness of action or motion; speed
Classic Sentence:
1 As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
2 The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
3 They slid down behind it with remarkable celerity, and from this position they began briskly to slice up the blue men.
4 I dare say you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity.
5 The name of Ivanhoe was no sooner pronounced than it flew from mouth to mouth, with all the celerity with which eagerness could convey and curiosity receive it.
6 Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case.
7 The material met with the customer's approval, a price was agreed upon, and with incredible celerity the vendor made up the purchase into a brown-paper parcel, and stowed it away in Chichikov's koliaska.
8 D'Artagnan was therefore served with miraculous celerity.
Example Sentence:
1 Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.