SPEED in a Sentence
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235 example sentences for SPEED, such as:
1. We can build up the speed gradually and safely.
2. It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
3. Make sure you keep within the new lower speed limit.
4. She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
5. Lower speed limits are part of a new road safety campaign.
2. It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
3. Make sure you keep within the new lower speed limit.
4. She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
5. Lower speed limits are part of a new road safety campaign.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SPEED
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speed
n. a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
v. move very fast
Classic Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
1 Every moment she expected to hear the pounding of his horse's hooves and see him come charging up the hill at his usual breakneck speed.
2 Gerald O'Hara was coming home across country and at top speed.
3 When she thought of the dull times of the past year, with the days going by one very much like another, life seemed to have quickened to an incredible speed.
4 Spurred to speed, Prissy hurried toward the back of the house while Scarlett scratched a hasty note on the margin of Gerald's last letter to her--the only bit of paper in the house.
5 She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
6 With all the speed the horse could summon, they jolted and bounced across Marietta Street.
7 And again, they loomed large, rushing at her with lightning speed.
8 As she drew near the path that led down through the bare trees into the creek bottom where the Shantytown settlement was, she clucked to the horse to quicken his speed.
9 And if you give a lazy darky a couple of licks to speed him up, you'll hear the Yankees scream from here to Dalton and you'll end up in jail.
10 Panic stricken at Rhett's message, mad for speed, Scarlett almost screamed at every halt.
11 Then, as it lowered its speed near Yonkers, she rose from her seat and drifted slowly down the carriage.
12 It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
13 So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does so when going at his utmost speed.
14 But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
15 Aware of their danger, they were going all abreast with great speed straight before the wind, rubbing their flanks as closely as so many spans of horses in harness.
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1 Such speed of travel was unimaginable before the railway age.
2 He redoubled his speed when he saw the finishing line ahead.
3 When he saw the land ahead, the swimmer redoubled his speed.
4 The energy an animal uses is in direct relation to speed and body mass.
5 The raft gathered speed as the current dragged it toward the falls.
6 Make sure you keep within the new lower speed limit.
7 Your metabolic rate is the speed at which your body transforms food into energy.
8 We can build up the speed gradually and safely.
9 The camera adjusts the lens aperture and shutter speed automatically.
10 Lower speed limits are part of a new road safety campaign.
11 We arranged for some home tutoring to get him up to speed with the other children in his class.
12 With her speed and agility, Cage cut out all her competitors in the hurdle race.
13 The use of fibre optics has served to increase the volume and speed of data transmission.
14 The Defense Department has been pressing private contractors for options to speed up deployment of missile defenses.
15 He estimated the speed of the winds from the degree of damage.