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Example sentences for "hasten"

Lexicographically close words:
hast; hasta; haste; hasted; hastely; hastened; hasteneth; hastening; hastens; hastes
  1. These are the very soul of the order Bahá’u’lláh has come to establish in the world and when the people see these qualities and characteristics actively demonstrated in our midst, those who are receptive will hasten to join our ranks.

  2. This morning a cablegram was communicated by the Greatest Holy Leaf to Mr. Roy Wilhelm in New York, instructing the committee in charge of the desired article to hasten its despatch.

  3. To this uplifting movement, various external factors are being added that are tending to hasten and stimulate this process of internal regeneration so significant in the life of renascent Persia.

  4. May His Spirit guide and sustain them to hasten that hour and consummate that task.

  5. Evidently enough I kept them until our Guardian’s arrival and I now hasten to reply.

  6. She will hasten towards them, and the guard will respectfully make way.

  7. Their request was granted; orders were given to hasten the death of the three condemned ones, and to remove them from the cross.

  8. Everything, in fact, seems to lead us to believe that the miracle of Bethany contributed sensibly to hasten the death of Jesus.

  9. I am very willing to hasten homewards when I may obtain my Lord's order; and that it will be no prejudice here to your service, as I conceive such a conclusion would not at all be.

  10. My Lady was here with me to hasten your return, wherein I should be glad to be instrumental.

  11. Whitelocke and the secretary perused them together, and agreed on all except two or three points, in which was some small difference; and Canterstein promised to hasten the engrossing of them.

  12. But do not, I pray you, hasten your supper for me.

  13. But come, Edith, our friend must be hungry with his long ride; see and hasten the supper.

  14. But it was soon lost, and the sight only served to hasten their footsteps.

  15. I only regret that I cannot do so at once; but my orders are strict, my route marked out, and I am told to hasten across this small peninsula as fast as possible without approaching the fortress.

  16. The Martin suffers a similar kind of persecution from the House-Sparrow, and here again there is reason to believe that the greater virility of the Sparrow will hasten the extinction of its rival.

  17. Gaetke even speaks of the "most handsome old birds being invariably the first to hasten back to their old homes.

  18. While thus occupied, he received such accounts of the queen's indisposition as induced him to quit Aragon, where he then was, and hasten by rapid journeys to Castile.

  19. Let me entreat you not to hasten the irrevocable step.

  20. Hasten to him, who has paid you to tell this tale and get your ransom from him!

  21. To hasten Henry's departure, she fell silent, yawned, fingered a score, and yawned again.

  22. Anything your friends might attempt would only hasten your undoing.

  23. Tell Monsieur de Mirabeau to hasten to St. Cloud, where I will meet him.

  24. There will be then nothing for you to do, but to hasten back to me with the tidings.

  25. I have come with a message from Monsieur, to desire you will hasten immediately to St. Cloud, where he will meet you.

  26. I remember of writing him two copious letters, one on the necessity of keeping up the draft, the other admonishing him to hasten his Proclamation of Emancipation.

  27. Laborious efforts had been made to hasten the issuance by the President of the Emancipation Proclamation, but he was determined not to be forced into premature and inoperative measures.

  28. I hasten to scribble this letter to be forwarded by him.

  29. But I have abandoned politics, and hasten to assure you of the constant love and esteem of all my family for all yours.

  30. DEAR SIR,--Your very acceptable letter reached me this morning, and I hasten to return you my thanks for it and to answer your very friendly inquiries after my health.

  31. Relation of the vices and virtues which hasten and prevent death, and the peace and rest of the mind which is sought after by mankind.

  32. This refers to the custom of hastening to perform the sandhya rites on the river side in the evening, as it is customary with other nations to hasten to the mosque or church at the call to prayers and the striking of the church-bell).

  33. So imperative had been our orders to hasten forward with all possible speed that on the march my troops were allowed to halt and rest only about two hours during the night from the 1st to the 2d of July.

  34. Orders for the troops to hasten their march of the 1st were sent without even a suggestion from him, but upon his announcement that he intended to fight the next day, if the enemy was there.

  35. General Ewell was, therefore, instructed to carry the hill occupied by the enemy, if he found it practicable, but to avoid a general engagement until the arrival of the other divisions of the army, which were ordered to hasten forward.

  36. I was sent to meet you and hasten your march.

  37. To hasten Taylor's return, he ordered General Mejia, at Matamoras, to open his batteries on our troops at Fort Brown, and make serious demonstrations against them.

  38. Before Captain Van Vliet had left, he promised to hasten to Washington and speak in our favor.

  39. Remember, O Lord, Thy covenant people in the north country; hasten the day when they shall come in remembrance before Thee, when their prophets shall smite the rocks and the mountains of ice shall flow down before them.

  40. In the last experiment, either the cold had not fully suspended the changes which the insect undergoes in the chrysalis, or its action was to hasten them after the chrysalides were taken from the ice.

  41. I get so irritable and wretched with fear, that I constantly hasten on the disorder.

  42. Dale knew his situation and had ordered him these powders to hasten his departure that he might suffer as little pain as possible.

  43. Mary wrote some few days since to Miss Stoddart, containing an account of your Brother's death, which most likely Coleridge will have heard, before the letter comes: we both wish it may hasten him back.

  44. To come to the point then, and hasten into the middle of things, have you a copy of your Algebra to give away?

  45. He felt how the wind rushing from the north-east urged him forward, and told himself that it would also hasten the march of Pharaoh's soldiers.

  46. Everybody must hasten to harness the animals, put them in the wagons, and prepare all things as fast as possible.

  47. Miriam, however, sternly forbade this, because it would hasten her death.

  48. Still the duty and affection she owed her kind foster-mother prompted her to hasten on.

  49. The gardener having been despatched with an order to the fencibles to hasten to the mill, the lawyer, with Harry and Adam, set out in the same direction.

  50. Headland could not help feeling that this was a strong hint to him to hasten his departure.

  51. Nor would the Jews be the only persons who would be anxious to hasten the end by giving the deadly blow.

  52. So, pray hasten home, and relieve his paternal solicitude, since go you must.

  53. Remember, had you been on the post destined for you, this disaster could not have happened: hasten to that which is now pointed out, and it may possibly be retrieved.

  54. Let us hasten down into the ravine, where there is brushwood and we can at least make a fire if the weather is bad.

  55. When that is over, bow yourself out and hasten back to your hotel without saying a word to any one on the way or answering a single question.

  56. We have not a moment to lose, but must hasten to meet this movement and rescue our flag from the dishonour with which our false friends are striving to stain it.

  57. Then the two were to hasten after their comrades.

  58. And now I must hasten away," concluded the secretary.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hastened away; hastened back