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Example sentences for "faster"

Lexicographically close words:
fasteners; fasteneth; fastening; fastenings; fastens; fastest; fastidious; fastidiously; fastidiousness; fastigia
  1. I saw that it would soon be booming about my stronghold, and realised that my fancy would have to work faster than it had ever worked before if half that I had in mind was to be accomplished.

  2. Why is it that a woman can go downstairs so much faster than a man?

  3. I stood over my toiling minions and I venture to say that they never worked harder or faster in their lives.

  4. This way, we'll still be going a lot faster than they are when we get close to them, but not enough faster to keep us from maneuvering relatively to their vessel, if things should go that far.

  5. You're faster than I am, and that's saying something.

  6. Faster and faster she flew--out beyond measurable atmosphere, out beyond the outermost limits of the green system.

  7. He must have thought faster than the others, because he put on an air-helmet and dived into this locker where he hid under a pile of gear, fixing things so that he could see out through the transparent arenak of the wall.

  8. You are working very much faster than you could have done by waiting for the torpedoes to arrive.

  9. Faster and faster the Skylark flew, pulling behind her the mass of wreckage, held by every available attractor.

  10. With you to pilot us, we can take you back to the First City a lot faster than your vessel can travel.

  11. He's so much faster than we are that he could catch us anyway, if he wanted to, no matter how much of a start we had--and it looks now as though he wanted us.

  12. Because we're going infinitely faster than they are now.

  13. Faster and faster he drove that fifth-order beam along the track of the fugitive, until a speed was attained beyond which his detecting converters could not hold the ether-rays they were following.

  14. Well, Seaton is at least that much faster than I am.

  15. Travelling as we are, we are going two knots an hour faster than the brig.

  16. I do not want showy horses, but they must be animals capable of performing a long journey, and of travelling at a fair rate of speed--the faster the better.

  17. At first they move a little slow, But still the faster on they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the Town of Sleep.

  18. Franklin is faster than of yore, and still goes down the right touch-line like a miniature thunderbolt, brushing aside the opposition like so many flies.

  19. Presently one saw small flashes of flame in the air all around it, followed by curious little puffs of smoke; then came the sound of exploding shells; you know that light travels faster than sound.

  20. The reason for that was that it was a couple of months later, and a couple of months make a big difference with cat-tails, because they grow even faster than cats.

  21. It went faster now and we were falling behind all the time.

  22. What they saw caused their hearts to beat faster and hope to spring up again in their breasts.

  23. A little faster than your tanks, old scout?

  24. We'll make faster time if we give ourselves a minute's rest," he panted.

  25. There, growing slowly old at ease No faster than his planted trees, He may, by warrant of his age, In schemes of broader scope engage.

  26. Faster and faster they whirled, and the monkey, inspired by their example, began to leap and bound about at the end of her string, chattering wildly.

  27. Carlotta walked faster and faster as they approached it, and the Twins had almost to run to keep up with her.

  28. It knew no check; it came faster and faster; it rose over the treetops, over the hills, until it had filled the whole basin of the present Mediterranean and until it lapped the mountain cliffs of Arabia and Africa.

  29. What could be done mechanically by a human being could be done faster and better by a machine.

  30. You can forward your work the faster when you get back, and I should like you to meet the men whose money you are to spend.

  31. The doctor says I gained faster here than anywhere between the two oceans, and we are all to spend six weeks up at Glen Tarn Springs.

  32. It's no use dumping gravel in there," he explained patiently, "the river will carry it out faster than flat cars can carry it in.

  33. It is whisked around at the flagstaff, driven faster yet by the cheers and shouts along the line.

  34. Pour out a little, then," said Lambert, "only walk faster or we shall lose sight of the other boys.

  35. But when they started for the day, the pair travelled so much faster than the one horse that the carriage soon left the wagon behind; sometimes it was visible a good way ahead, and sometimes was quite out of sight.

  36. Faster and faster went the pony, till we seemed to be flying through the air, the door hanging open, and we three fighting for life inside.

  37. Along one of the faster ways rushed a thick crowd of red spots.

  38. The bell clanged faster and faster, and the feet of the retreating people roared faster and louder.

  39. Excitement was at all times as wine to him, so, promising to be at the rendezvous, he rode homeward faster than before, with a sense of anticipation which helped to dull the edge of his care.

  40. Faster and faster her bow swept across the strings, and as before, though now for a very different reason, her audience sat fascinated before her.

  41. It was pitch dark and the horses wading to their bellies and the snow coming faster when we turned into Rattleroad.

  42. My heart beat faster when I observed that the superscription on the envelope was in Sally's handwriting.

  43. As soon as it became evident to Mr. Fogg that his driver had seen his duty and was going to do it, traffic squad be blowed, the promoter settled back, and his thoughts began to revolve faster than the taxi's wheels.

  44. It's coming in faster than I can throw it out!

  45. When they ran, the antelope proved the faster runner, and beat the deer and took his gall.

  46. He made fine arrows that went faster than a bird could fly, and when he was hunting, he watched all the animals and all the birds, and learned their ways, and how to imitate them when they called.

  47. That is my home, and there I can run faster than you can.

  48. At length he found that he could no longer defend all the women, so he made up his mind to leave those that had the slowest horses to the mercy of the enemy, while he would go on with those that had the faster ones.

  49. The antelope felt very big because he had beaten the deer in the race, and he thought wherever they might be, he could run faster than the deer.

  50. They walked much faster than a grown peasant would have done, and they knew the road.

  51. Everybody knew that one horse could run faster than another, without trying it, but it could not matter a straw which of two, or twenty, got to the goal first.

  52. Then run up the ledge there, and climb the rock, the faster the better.

  53. They bruise very easily and when Peter plays faster and faster they foot it till they fall down in fits.

  54. This is why the faster we get ahead this first day, and the more cars we put behind us, the better off we will be for the rest of the run,” said Dan.

  55. Faster and faster the machine seemed to fly.

  56. Pretty soon, however, a little slowly to begin with, but then faster and faster, the strong and fascinating spirit of adventure came once more upon him.

  57. He plays forward with his eye on, not only the pitch, but on the ball itself, being faster or slower in his advance by a calm calculation of time--a point too little considered by some even of the best batsmen of the day.

  58. It progresses no faster than the weathering away of the slopes of a divide, and here as a rule weathering is deliberate to say the least, unless accelerated by a fortunate combination of favoring conditions.

  59. The level of the flood-plain is sometimes built up faster than the small side-streams of the lower course can fill their valleys, and hence they are converted for a little distance above their mouths into shallow lakes.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.