hasty - use in sentences

Infinitive complement

  • dismiss: While most of us are probably fed-up with DAT tapes, perhaps you were a bit hasty to dismiss tapes for storage, Derek!
  • conclude: It would be hasty to conclude from this that the new constitution will really tender them this opportunity in the future.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • do: So astrologers are not inclined to do anything hasty.
  • start: Thou need na start awa sae hasty, wi bickering brattle!

Modifies a noun

  • retreat: Tommy beats a hasty retreat with Lauren, leaving Tony to cover for him.
  • pudding: In summer milk is supplied with hasty pudding, in winter treacle.
  • temper: He must, however, as the event shewed, have been of a very hasty temper.
  • exit: They made a hasty exit into the passage that led to their rooms whence muffled laughter exploded.
  • departure: His last concrete memory was of his hasty departure from Luna Lab.
  • glance: One hasty glance over his shoulder, He saw in a flash what were wrong.

Modifying Another Word

  • too: Like Romeo, she was too hasty in rushing into marriage.
  • somewhat: You have no doubt anticipated almost all I could offer from a somewhat hasty glance.
  • rather: It turns out that I was being rather hasty.
  • so: Now as our fellow workers were so hasty we were bound to come out on strike.
  • little: Perhaps I was a little hasty in dismissing streaming video.
  • very: TOP SECRET - 5 - TOP SECRET I have given a very hasty review of the Pacific situation in general terms.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Look at it that way, and the rush to judgment after last week's Royal meeting seems hasty, to say the least.
  • make: This aspect causes you to make hasty, sometimes regrettable decisions.

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