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Example sentences for "sped"

Lexicographically close words:
speculator; speculators; specyal; specyall; specyally; spedde; spede; spedy; speech; speeche
  1. The giraffe had its back to me, and as I sped on I formed my plan.

  2. As I sped through the night, staring out of the window into the darkness, I reflected on the man I was going to see.

  3. Departing on this embassy, I sped out of the gates of the fort.

  4. He closed the door softly and I sped away, my moccasins making no sound on the soft dirt.

  5. There were many such false alarms in the bright days following, and never a bullet sped from the shadow of the forest.

  6. With an effort of will she moved toward the bridge, but was impelled by a consciousness of the abruptness of her departure to look back at him once--and smile, to experience again the thrill of the current he sped after her.

  7. My chest tightened, and I sped along the ranks to Harrod's company and caught Tom by the wrist.

  8. At the foot of Breed's Hill in Charlestown an American had been born into the world, by the might of whose genius that fateful name was sped to the uttermost parts of the nation.

  9. Nor did a mouthful pass his lips until I had sped away with a steaming portion to find the Colonel.

  10. A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design.

  11. King Egelred aduertised thereof, sped him thither with a mightie host, and with great crueltie burned vp the countrie, and slue the more part of the [Sidenote: Canute driven to forsake the land.

  12. This man gouerned a long time without anie notable trouble: some warres he had, and sped [Sidenote: Ran.

  13. On the flanks of the column, as if to dress its ranks, a few sped to and fro in eager haste.

  14. She hastily untied her feet, and sped away toward the creek.

  15. At his words, several of them sped around a headland which hid the cove beyond.

  16. Her sword flashed in a blinding arc as it sped toward the man.

  17. She dropped the head and sped for the ship.

  18. These were grave matters, and the roads from Paris to Osterode and Finkenstein continually resounded under the hoofs of horses and the roll of wheels as messengers sped back and forth with questions and replies.

  19. The balls yelled as they sped by, and there was great excitement.

  20. Richard's sword flashed like lightning, but even before it fell had sped the arrow of Guy the Bow.

  21. Those of the enemy who escaped to tell the tale said afterward that then it seemed as if it snowed arrows, so swiftly twanged the strings and sped the white shafts.

  22. A whizzing shaft passed over his head, and a cloth-yard arrow sped to its mark, inside the shoulder of the deer.

  23. Not an arrow hath sped since we set forth from Warwick.

  24. With that, picking up her skirts, Alice sped across the open space, leaving Ruth to do as she pleased.

  25. And, as they got outside, they saw, running off in the dusk, across the fields, a man who limped as he sped onward.

  26. As he sped along the row, note and medicine phial in hand, Davies was surprised to see his captain's storm-door wide open and a light shining through the transom within.

  27. But ten, twenty minutes sped and no Willett.

  28. There was instantaneous lashing of quirts, a sudden scurry and rush, and like one great herd of elk smitten with sudden panic, away surged and sped the entire throng, Thunder Hawk's stampeded pony bearing him irresistibly away with the rest.

  29. Meanwhile, wrapped in the warm furs of the motor, Felicia and Lady Tatham sped toward Duddon.

  30. No, the gate swung open, and in sped the car.

  31. XII Faversham sped home through the winding Cumbrian lanes, driven by the new chauffeur just imported from Manchester.

  32. The car sped once more through the gloom of the park.

  33. As he softly let himself in at the side door of the Tower, and mounted to his new room, his whole nature was like a fiercely sped arrow, aflight for its goal.

  34. He sped on and presently the mist lost its luminous effect.

  35. Then Jimmy landed his ship and Handley left him, to gather the remainder of his story on the ground and put it on the wire, while Jimmy himself sped back to New York with his photographs.

  36. The instant he had gained sufficient altitude, he darted away to the west, shot between the hills, and sped straight as an arrow to Lancaster, the nearest town on the Connecticut.

  37. It sped through the air, uncoiling as it flew, and dropped lightly on the fuselage of the plane.

  38. To my last day I shall not forget the delight, the rapture, with which that released bird mounted from the doorway of his cage and sped away!

  39. The ship looked like a vast bird, when with all sail set and her black hull careening to one side under the wind, she drove the foaming water away from her bows, and sped forward as if pursuing or fleeing from some enemy.

  40. But the gallant Coral rode it out safely, and the steady breeze caught her and she sped swiftly in the direction of the Pearl Islands.

  41. Had they been caught in a calm the heat would have been suffocating; but Providence favored them, and they sped along like a seagull toward their destination.

  42. The Coral hoisted sail, and, heading out to sea, rapidly sped away over the Pacific.

  43. The only one on the proa who was on duty was Fred, who held the steering-oar in place, while the curiously-shaped vessel sped through the water.

  44. But the flock, dipping and rising in swift flight, sped on unheeding.

  45. With the engine's roar in her ears and its smoke in her nostrils, she sped on, neck and neck with the iron horse.

  46. The ball again sped round the wheel, and stopped.

  47. One sped its rapid course toward Helium; the other-- Thuvia of Ptarth strolled in the gardens of her father's palace, as was her nightly custom before retiring.

  48. The summer vacation soon sped away, and teacher and pupil were at their posts of duty to put in their last session together.

  49. Three months soon sped away, and Octavia and her ex-teacher must part.

  50. From the foot of the steps he sped forward, his elbows spread like wings; and when again in his seat, he looked intent as before.

  51. He bowed left and right to those behind him, straightened his robes in front and behind, and sped forward, his elbows spread like wings.

  52. The call was repeated, and Nicholas sped over the mossy log and across the ploughed field, while Bernard and Eugenia toiled up the hillside.

  53. Then he threw the books from him into the sand at her feet, and with a choking sob sped past her to vanish amid a whirl of dust in the sunny distance.

  54. As he sped breathlessly along, past the wastelands, into the woods, down the road to the hillside, and down the hillside to the road again, he went too rapidly for thought.

  55. A strong wind was blowing among the trees, and the dried leaves were torn from the boughs and hurled roughly to the earth, when they sped onward to rest against the drifts by the roadside.

  56. She might have called to him, but she did not; she sped like a shadow in his path until, hearing her footfalls in the dust, he looked back and halted.

  57. Again he called, and again the plaintive cry responded, growing fainter as several fleeter ewes sped past him to the beech trees beside the little stream.

  58. And she sped after the little animal, who took alarm at her first step and disappeared between the trunks of the trees.

  59. Slim needed no second invitation and roused himself immediately, while the Captain sped to collect the remainder of the Sandwiches, which was accomplished in short order, as none of the other invitations involved resurrection.

  60. Gladys nudged Hinpoha and drew her down the ladder and together they sped after canned shrimp and condensed milk.

  61. The weeks succeeding the incidents of our last chapter sped rapidly by.

  62. What wonder that she trembled at every report of aggression or conflict that sped towards her!

  63. Swiftly the weeks sped onward, laden with the events of the nation's disasters.

  64. Without a moment's hesitation, the boy dropped from his seat and sped across the floor after his usual manner, for the old timidity had left him during his years in Boston; but the tearful eyes of the visitor were upon him.

  65. High up towards the heavens sped the lurid dart of flame, and many eyes beheld its flight with wonder.

  66. Onward they sped through the gloom; mile after mile gliding under the feet of the Steam Man, until Charley guided him into the blazed path leading into the patch of woods in which was situated the rendezvous of the counterfeiting gang.

  67. Swiftly sped the iron feet, and in the course of five minutes the level land of the prairie was reached.

  68. Like meteors they sped over the course, level as a trotting road, and bore down upon the wagons.


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