hurry - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • please: Training for this year will be in September and November, so please hurry to get involved.

Modifying Another Word

  • back: We hurried back to the guesthouse to watch the Cup Final on Sky luckily there were no Millwall fans among us.
  • inside: A cry inside hurried me into a room, which appeared to serve as an armory.
  • forward: As their way led straight through the trees, they hurried forward as fast as possible.

Adjective modifier

  • desperate: He is in such a desperate hurry that he fumbles with the keys and drops them.
  • great: The picture was snapped in a great hurry in the rain.
  • big: MULDER: You seem like you're in an awful big hurry.
  • particular: I am not in a particular hurry to get rich.
  • real: I remember thinking: there's no real hurry.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • across: Instead they have to hurry across when there is a break in the traffic and they are often left waiting for some time.
  • off: On the evening of the concert, you hurry off to the place where it's being held.

Preposition: while

  • stock: But hurry while stocks last, because all the bottlings that we sampled tonight are limited.

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