How to Use hasty in a Sentence

hasty

adjective

• I made a hasty sketch of the scene.
• Seeing the dog, the cat made a hasty retreat up a tree.
• We don't want to make any hasty decisions.
• He later realized that he was too hasty in his decision to quit.
• No amount of hasty cleanup will erase the words that come from the lips of a commander in chief.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• Even so, a hasty plan that goes bad is likely to take you down with it!
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• The decision to spend ad money on the big game wasn’t hasty.
  — Jabari Young, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the call became a hasty pass to Trey Lowe that never had a chance.
  — oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2021
• Still, many analysts think the sell-off has been too hasty.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• Was there any hasty rewriting of scripts after her death?
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• That hasty decision to push Lenhard out has come at a cost to the city and its taxpayers.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• Its creators may have made a hasty exit, Dr. Adali said.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The company beat a hasty retreat from breakfast, then tried and pulled back twice more in the last two decades.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• At this point, [Mutch and Khuri] were sent back up the gorge to prepare something hot and to strike camp ready for a hasty exit.
  — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• The muddled answer prompted a hasty recess of the council.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
• Anything that can smash, like a nice camera, should always be stored in lower bins in the event of a hasty turn or quick stop.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The predominance of grease in the American kitchen, coupled with the habits of hasty eating . .
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• Jim’s hasty decision to just cover Elric’s body with a tarp and leave him at the camp is going to come back to haunt him.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 28 Dec. 2021
• In the village of Dmytrivka, west of the capital, there were signs of a hasty Russian retreat from a scene of carnage.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022
• However, declaring this a long-term trend would be hasty.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 11 June 2022
• But Verbeek needs to be careful and not be too hasty in wanting results right away.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• The hasty British withdrawal left the field clear for anyone to loot, burn, rape and murder with impunity.
  — From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• Distraction inspires hasty judgement calls as the moon squares off with Mars.
  — USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• The hasty conclusion ends the film on a sheepish note, without having gotten away with much at all.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• Volos was in chaos, and its hospital beds were soon filled with a wave of soldiers wounded in the Greek army’s hasty collapse in the first week of the conflict.
  — Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Luke attempts a hasty escape, but is captured and beaten.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2022
• These have a long life apart from swaddling, as a nursing cover, a stroller shade, a hasty play mat, an emergency burp cloth and more.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 22 Feb. 2023
• And the second the father and his brood turn away, the actor, after a hasty goodbye, literally runs away.
  — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
• The slow simmer and reduction have changed them from a hasty, easy pantry meal to something fabulous.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2024
• Tobias cited Musk’s own waving of due diligence in his hasty acceptance of the deal.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Gerrit De Vynck, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024