HASTE in a Sentence

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He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.

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 Meanings and Examples of HASTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
haste
 n.  hurry; rapidity of action or motion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  Isabeau ran out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
4  Let us eat with meditation; let us make haste slowly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  Consider the springtime; if it makes haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
6  Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
7  A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
8  The old woman obeyed in all haste.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
9  He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
10  After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
11  In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a bottle of wine and a glass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
12  Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thenardier uplifted her voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  She made haste to send her daughters to bed, then she asked the man's permission to send Cosette off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal air.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
14  He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
15  Even at that time any one who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
Example Sentence:
1  In his blind haste he almost ran into the river.
2  Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
3  Who has no haste in his business mountains to him seem valleys.
4  Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
5  The contract says the work must be completed with all possible haste.
6  Unfortunately the report was prepared in haste and contained several inaccuracies.
7  The young man went scrambling down into the ward in frantic haste.
8  Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards.
9  Many a truism is summed up in a proverb; for example, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure.".
10  Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.