SPEED in a Sentence

Learn SPEED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SPEED
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Gerald O'Hara was coming home across country and at top speed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  She sat upright and gave Prissy a push to speed her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  With all the speed the horse could summon, they jolted and bounced across Marietta Street.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  And again, they loomed large, rushing at her with lightning speed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
10  Panic stricken at Rhett's message, mad for speed, Scarlett almost screamed at every halt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
11  Then, as it lowered its speed near Yonkers, she rose from her seat and drifted slowly down the carriage.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  It bumped through the factory belt, gained speed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does so when going at his utmost speed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
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 ...
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
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.