RAPID in a Sentence

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"I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAPID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rapid
 a.  acting or occurring with great speed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  Ethan's long strides grew more rapid with the accelerated beat of his thoughts, and as he reached the foot of School House Hill he caught sight of Hale's sleigh in the distance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  Scarlett could now understand a little better the boy who had made her wife, widow and mother in such rapid succession.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  With the rise in prices, Confederate money sank, and with its rapid fall there rose a wild passion for luxuries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  Suddenly her rapid steps paused, fright weakening her knees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  There was a quick command from Captain Jaffery on the front porch and the rapid tramp of feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  Dimly she heard Archie stump across the room to Rhett and heard Rhett's low rapid words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  She heard his rapid steps for a moment and then the closing of a door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
10  A rapid shower had cooled the air, and clouds still hung refreshingly over the moist street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  As she had said, the letter was torn in two; but with a rapid gesture she laid the torn edges together and smoothed out the page.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  She knelt down, and the flame leapt under her rapid hands.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
14  During the laughing relation of this manoeuvre, Selden had time for a rapid impression of Miss Bart, who had seated herself opposite to him in the golden afternoon light.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
15  The completeness of the analogy was, however, disturbed as she reached the sidewalk by the rapid approach of a hansom which pulled up at sight of her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
16  The patient made a rapid recovery.
17  Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
18  Eastern Europe has been a testing ground for rapid economic reform.
19  His response to the accusation was rapid.
20  His rise to power was very rapid.
21  His skin was dry and hot, his breathing rapid and jerky.
22  His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.
23  The new digital technology would allow a rapid expansion in the number of TV channels.
24  Cable technology will make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis.
25  China's rapid economic growth in recent years has to a large extent been fuelled by business investment in new factories and other commercial premises, many of them producing low-cost manufactured goods.
26  According to new research rapid and large scale loss of natural habitats has already affected biodiversity in the area and urgent conservation efforts are now needed.
27  The bus rapid transit system carries a half million passengers daily in dedicated bus lanes.
28  Worker mobility also appears to be constrained by rapid urbanization which has resulted in exorbitant urban housing prices and rents.
29  Under the tutelage of such masters of the instrument, she made rapid progress as a virtuoso.
30  As was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.