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Example sentences for "hurried"

Lexicographically close words:
hurrahed; hurrahing; hurrahs; hurricane; hurricanes; hurriedly; hurries; hurry; hurrying; hurt
  1. Stout, sedate-looking pigs hurried by each morning to their places of business, with a preoccupied air, and sonorous greetings to their friends.

  2. A round of juvenile applause greeted her as she hurried into the parlor, and a number of grown people smiled quite musically.

  3. Together they had hurried down to the beach.

  4. Barbara kissed the top of her head and hurried away.

  5. Mr. Lee said something about breakfast, and Keineth's father hurried them into a waiting taxicab.

  6. The Count had not seen him, but Mrs. Clarkson hurried him upstairs and told him that their whereabouts was discovered, and that they must take refuge in flight before Clarkson had time to take steps for their apprehension.

  7. It was fated, however, that they were not to be allowed to slumber calmly on until the approach of the sun hurried the round moon out of sight below the western horizon.

  8. For some unknown reason he had taken alarm, perhaps because of their coming to the lonely lake, and made a hurried change of base.

  9. They had taken a hurried departure, and that was the end of it.

  10. If some time passed, and the moose did not seem able to extricate himself from his sad dilemma, then Phil believed he could take his hurried departure; though he meant to snap off a picture of the animal first.

  11. Taking advantage of the breathing spell he cast a hurried look back of him.

  12. Feeling he should not let such a chance escape him, Shelley had not been three days at Nantgwillt before he hurried to Cwm Elan to talk the matter over to Tom Grove.

  13. She was hurried through different rules without having been able to do a single sum with accuracy.

  14. Burr came up and hurried us to the left, into a wood, and rode along the column from front to rear, encouraging the men, and led us out to the main army with very small loss.

  15. Thrown from tongue to tongue as a ball is thrown in play, a message from the captain on the flank hurried along the living line.

  16. We were being hurried up as reinforcements to the main army, which was in touch with the enemy ahead and an engagement was developing.

  17. Again a halt was called; the brigadier-general, followed by two officers and several orderlies, galloped up, and a hurried consultation with our colonel took place.

  18. Singly, in pairs, and in files we hurried back to the point of assembly, to find a very angry captain awaiting us.

  19. About eleven o'clock an orderly stole in and spoke to the colonel, a hurried consultation in which all the officers took part was held, and the messenger departed.

  20. They hurried out in a great fright, saying that they did not think it was right to intrude on the privacy of any young students.

  21. Prayers over, they all hurried to breakfast.

  22. Reginald, with Power and Anson, as soon as they had seen the Squire off, hurried back to the Brocas--some fields on the banks of the river.

  23. Several knights and gentlemen hurried after the duke, and imitated his example in placing red roses in their caps.

  24. So he hurried back to collect all the fighting men to repel the enemy.

  25. I hurried off to consult with Jack on the subject.

  26. Chiarina remarked her father's agitation as he hurried towards the house.

  27. The governor had to call in troops from the surrounding country, and the war-office had to fetch back all the Prussian and Austrian Poles whom, in the first hours of repression, they had hurried to the confines of the Frozen Sea.

  28. Consultation with Dunning, however, convinced him that the course for an automobile was too roundabout and there was too much ferrying to make the hurried journey feasible.

  29. All bridge playing ceased, and the long summer hours became so deadly dull for Mrs. Landon that she gladly accepted the invitation of a friend, hurried to New York and sailed with her for England and the continent.

  30. The steamer had hardly passed the bit of water and the boys were still standing, when Mr. Richards came out of the pilot house and hurried to them.

  31. He hurried out of the door, the two following closely.

  32. It would seem that he would have hurried forward for the sake of company in this lonely region.

  33. He hurried to the nearest grocery store where he bought a couple of sandwiches and was back in a few minutes.

  34. Alvin waved a good-by to Pat and the youths hurried away, anxious to be out on the water.

  35. He and his chum hurried out, merely calling good-by to her.

  36. She turned and hurried in and just as she went out of sight she looked over her shoulder, timid like, and waved her hand--only a bit of a wave, but I saw it.

  37. The sweet face fell, and I hurried to comfort her.

  38. Even the best of them were hurried and anxious, and if they were old and valued, they got on one's nerves the more: one had to consider them.

  39. She started from the shop like one pursued, and hurried foolishly on and on in an ecstasy of flight.

  40. The man touched his cap and hurried off and Weldon stood nervously by the door.

  41. We nodded at each other and she hurried off, almost smiling.

  42. He hurried this way and that, calling at the top of his voice; and for a small man he certainly had astonishingly loud vocal attainments.

  43. Satisfied that Billie was contented to carry out the part of the plan assigned to him Adrian hurried over to where he had left his horse.

  44. But the man they had picked up on the trail did not seem to fancy the looks of things, for he made the utmost haste to limp over to the nearest bunk house, around which he hurried so as to lose his identity in the crowd that was gathering.

  45. But the Chink seemed to feel that it was a compliment on his cooking to have any one gobble that way; and he was grinning all over as he hurried off to get a fresh supply.

  46. I'll send for a specialist at once," said Raymond, and hurried off to the nearest telephone station.

  47. Tell her for me to make the best of it," answered Adam Adams and hurried to the depot.

  48. Then he hurried outside: "Go back to the house," he said to the old woman.

  49. The Englishman came away from the house and hurried along the street to where the trolley car ran.

  50. After that the pair conversed for a quarter of an hour longer and then, after making some changes in his disguise, Charles Vapp hurried from the hotel and out into the darkness of what looked as if it would prove a stormy night.

  51. He fixed it to correspond with the numbers of his own office safe, then closed the door, gave the knob a twirl, and hurried from the room by the same opening by which he had entered.

  52. Greatly annoyed at this information, he hurried to Mr. Hughes, his constant adviser in all difficulties, to consult with him.

  53. He had not long been in bed, when his housekeeper fancying she heard a noise in his room, hurried down, but all was quiet: she went in again later in the night, and found him dead.

  54. He hurried away to the house in Great Wild-street, and knocked long and loudly at the door.

  55. After informing the magistrate that it was not in his power to identify the prisoners, Grimaldi hurried away.

  56. As soon as he could get away from the stage, he hurried down stairs, and inquiring who wanted him, was introduced to two strangers, who were patiently awaiting his arrival.

  57. His brother was, of course, glad to hear there was no necessity for them to separate, and Grimaldi hurried away to his dressing-room, leaving him on the stage.

  58. He played Acres and Clown, received the cash, bade farewell to the manager, and hurried to his inn, greatly fatigued by his performance, and looking forward with much pleasure to the pickled salmon.

  59. He had then to change his dress with all possible speed, and take a hurried walk, and often a rapid run, to Drury Lane, to perform in the last piece.

  60. Here he jumped into another chaise which fortunately stood ready at the door, and hurried up to London, without venturing to stay for any refreshment whatever.

  61. To her hurried inquiries he gave the best answers that occurred to him, and being unwilling to give her any unnecessary alarm, merely remarked, that he had a fall from his gig, which had made him giddy and uncomfortable.

  62. The child hurried on with her, sobbing, and she was soon on the stairs beside the unconscious John.

  63. The snowy valley with its circling woods opened to him like a mother's breast; the sight of it filled him with a hundred simple hopes and consolations; he hurried to bury himself in it, and be at peace.

  64. Then, stepping as noiselessly as he could on his bare feet, he hurried away.

  65. He did not answer, but hurried to the station.

  66. They climbed the side of this ridge, hurried round to the front.

  67. He laughed, and the moon hurried laughing alongside, through the black masses of the trees.

  68. The moment passed, and her thoughts hurried forward in confusion.

  69. With his black violin-case he hurried down the street, then halted to pity the flowers massed pallid under the gaslight of the market-hall.

  70. She will be in a fever of suspense,' said Helena to herself, and straightway she hurried to catch a tramcar to return to the station.

  71. You'd better come,' said Siegmund, and they hurried down towards Louisa and Olive.

  72. Chapter 27 He hurried down the platform, wincing at every stride, from the memory of Helena's last look of mute, heavy yearning.

  73. If he has been wounded he is quickly hurried back to the front.

  74. As I had held up the train so long, I did not have much time to dress and hurried into the train with my hat in my hand and my shoes untied.

  75. A hurried order to remount, and the crash of rifles at a distance of twenty yards followed.

  76. When our little entrenchment had been cleared of its stores, the real retreat began, made under a murderous fire, which followed us as we hurried down the steep slope into the ravine below.

  77. Then he hurried to his tavern, where his supper had to be especially cooked for him, it being past the early hour of the pioneer evening meal.

  78. Many a time even now as soon as I have hurried through the joyous gateways of sleep, I come back over the mountains to you as naturally as though there had been no years to separate and to age.

  79. As he hurried on, it seemed to him a long time since then!

  80. But as soon as she caught sight of him, she hurried to the bed.

  81. They made it their especial care, when any new-comer hurried past, to arrest him with the command that he must not go in; and they would thus have stopped Mrs. Falconer but she put them gently aside without heed or hearing.

  82. But early that winter Major Falconer had died, and his next letter was but a short hurried reply to one from her, bringing him this intelligence.

  83. They had to camp another day and next morning they hurried straight over the mountains, reaching the settlement almost as soon as the others.

  84. They hurried back to the logs, tore the jam to pieces, searched it carefully and found nothing.

  85. It was an affecting scene to see the hurried gestures, and hear the few words of adieu, as they passed each other.

  86. You are not to be hurried over your breakfast, there is no office to go to; nothing to be thought of but the enjoyment of your tea and toast, which you may sip and munch as leisurely as you please, while reading a magazine or newspaper.

  87. I arose early the next morning and hurried into the street to see how a city looked by day-light.

  88. I arrived at Bristol early in the forenoon and hurried to the house of my customer, and told him I had brought the the clocks as agreed.

  89. Mrs. Paxton and Theydon were admitted without any delay, and Forbes himself hurried downstairs to greet them.

  90. Beyond a few signs of hurried rummaging of drawers and boxes there is absolutely no indication of a crime having been committed.

  91. The girl, gazing at her father, happened to look for an instant at Theydon, who, fearful lest his candidly admiring glance might have been a trifle too sustained, pretended a hurried interest in an unlighted cigarette.

  92. I jumped out, told Jackson to find something to do to his machine at the corner of the next block, and hurried into the Alpine chalet.

  93. Suiting the action to the word, she hurried toward the exit, and was murmuring something that sounded like an apology for her seeming brusqueness as they passed the ticket collector.

  94. As the weather was bad, you probably hurried in when your cab stopped?

  95. Just before he reached the vehicle a gentleman hurried out of the building and forestalled him.

  96. He had heard of my Aunt Amanda's dangerous condition, and he had hurried back to see her and to tell her something before she died.

  97. For some minutes Sam Twitty had not said a word, but now he most earnestly advised his friend to accept this offer, and, jumping to the ground, he hurried to open the gate so that Captain Abner might drive in.

  98. He rose, and without another word he hurried home.


  99. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrupt; breakneck; careless; crowded; cursory; desperate; expeditious; fast; feverish; flying; furious; hasty; headlong; hotheaded; hurried; immediate; impetuous; instant; mad; overzealous; passing; perfunctory; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous; prompt; quick; rapid; reckless; rushed; rushing; scratch; sketchy; snap; speedy; sudden; superficial; swift; urgent; wanton; wild


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hurried away; hurried back; hurried down; hurried forward