QUICKEN in a Sentence

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For QUICKEN, below is one of 62 sentences:
As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUICKEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
quicken
 v.  make keen or more acute
 v.  move faster
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  A strong note of pride reinforcing the gravity of the priest's voice made Stephen's heart quicken in response.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  As she was telling her terrible story, the eastern sky began to quicken, and everything became more and more clear.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  The very sharpness of the contrast used to quicken his sense of pleasure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
4  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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  But the storm-clouds, turning white and then black, moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their pace to get home before the rain.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 17
7  It needs sheer sensuality even to purify and quicken the mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  Thereat the rest quicken their speed.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
9  The crash of a loaded branch falling far off in the woods reverberated like a musket-shot, and once a fox barked, and Mattie shrank closer to Ethan, and quickened her steps.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
10  Many had moved for no reason at all, except that the restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  His lips traveled to her wrist and she knew he must feel the leap of her pulse as her heart quickened and she tried to draw back her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  Prissy quickened her gait infinitesimally and Scarlett went back into the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
15  He found Gerty as he had left her, simple, undemanding and devoted, but with a quickened intelligence of the heart which he recognized without seeking to explain it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  They have to quicken up their rate of work to fulfil the production quota.
2  Good debate can quicken one's mind.
3  Ray glanced at his watch and quickened his pace.
4  As the pace quickened, Pepe began to drop behind.
5  Pity is a level for quickening love.
6  Rochester has been favored with the most lively and the most continuous? The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.