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haste - use in sentences
Converse of object
- make: Here was a youth making haste to give hostages to fortune.
- post: When he had found a place which had grouse on the menu he repaired there post haste with a chum in a Ferrari.
- return: Andrews took his watch from his pocket and, noting the time, announced that they should return post haste to the hospital.
- regret: You must spend time reading the wine list before you choose as there are many wines to miss and you may regret haste.
- urge: So leaving the fallen, he urges haste to make for the fortress of Helm's Deep and safety.
- suggest: The note is short and written on a torn piece of paper suggesting haste and little or no planning.
Adjective modifier
- unseemly: Already the unseemly haste with which the media picked up the flashlight for Blair has created signs of a backlash among Labor supporters.
- indecent: With indecent haste, we were introduced to The Style Council.
- undue: With me want of prayer always leads to undue haste.
- feverish: The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.
- hot: Whilst in the water a mounted policeman was seen proceeding in hot haste over Bow Bridge toward Sheffield.
- great: Whenever there is great haste demanded or advised, be wary.
Modifies a noun
- ye: Haste ye back to fill in the gaps of our grand tour of Scotland on the seventh International tour in 2007.
Noun used with modifier
- post: Needless to say, I threw the gadget in the garbage, post haste.
Preposition: in
- war: Thus, tho we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
- order: I surmise that the Debian developers resolved to forgo haste in order to avoid similar problems with Debian 2.0.
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