How to Use rapid in a Sentence

rapid

1 of 2 adjective

• There's been rapid growth in the number of new businesses in the town.
• She carefully guided the boat through the rapid water.
• Scientists are concerned about the rapid disappearance of the island's coral reefs.
• The group’s rapid capture of large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014 shocked the world.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• Yet in some cases, the virus takes off by rapid replication in host cells.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Officials said the fire continued to grow at a rapid pace overnight.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some food companies used the moment of rapid changes to pad their own profits.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• Other species may not be able to outrun the rapid changes in their habitat and could simply die off.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• It’s been a rapid ascent through the Rays system for Manzardo.
  — Tim Booth and Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• The rapid decline of comedy on the big screen is a tragedy—a minor one, but a tragedy, nonetheless.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
• This rapid change prompts the collagen and elastin in your skin to rupture, causing stretch marks to appear.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• The 911 call prompted a rapid response by Mobile police.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2023
• The town has seen rapid growth in cruise traffic since the pandemic, with a handful of cruise lines visiting.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
• This was a year of rapid — and sometimes confusing — change for tenants and landlords.
  — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• Global sea levels are also on the rise, driven mainly by the rapid melting of ice sheets and glaciers.
  — Ritu Prasad, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• This is when water pours over a dam’s rim, triggering very rapid erosion of the structure’s front side.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2023
• And so, everyone’s sharpened those skills quite a bit at rapid adjustment over the past few years.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
• Since its rapid rise in 2020, TikTok has secured a spot as one of the most popular predictors of trends.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
• Signs include shortness of breath, hives, rapid heartbeat, nausea, confusion, and swelling of the face, tongue, or throat.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the last three months, the kitten has already seen rapid development, now weighing 6 1/2 pounds — about five times his birth weight.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• The potential cash crunch at Selfridges is just one element of the fallout from the rapid collapse of the Signa empire.
  — Libby Cherry, Fortune Europe, 29 Dec. 2023
• That prompted the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at a rapid pace.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• According to the filing, the rapid depressurization ripped a shirt off a boy and sucked cellphones out the aircraft.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• The rapid switch from drive-by to date night was by criminal design, the prosecutor told jurors.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Dan Fink, another Sandy resident, echoed Couche’s fear of rapid fire growth.
  — Kayla Nguyen, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• Just as a rapid rise in interest rates knocked the stock market lower in 2022, the expectation for lower rates this year has formed part of the case for stocks to rise.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• This rapid movement leads to powerful winds that can create a spinning column of air.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• Europe’s rapid build-out of wind and solar power is being driven by the war in Ukraine and efforts to abandon Russian oil and gas.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Need for Speed in E-commerce: The pace of business today demands agility and rapid adaptability.
  — Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2024
• And though prices are higher than before, rapid increases are no longer a scourge on American life.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024

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rapid

2 of 2 noun

• The whirlpool rapids at the bottom of the fall can reach 30mph.
  — Currie Engel, Time, 10 July 2019
• Suddenly the crack of a firearm echoed above the rapids.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Smokey Falls full-day trip gives the biggest thrill, with class 3 and 4 rapids.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• The two men were marooned in the middle of the river's rapids after the scow got stuck on rocks in the stream.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2019
• As the tide goes out, the rapids flow in the opposite direction.
  — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• In such an age, Mr. Trump—one of history’s plungers—shoots the rapids.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• And the leader of the trip, Norm Nevills, is looking at the river to see how to get through these rapids.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
• Hamilton and his roommate are just two of many who have been wronged by the rapid.
  — Zoya Qureshi, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2022
• The rapids above the falls reach a maximum speed of 25 mph, while the fastest speeds — 68 mph — occur at the falls themselves.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2019
• A few hours later, Dall sheep watch us splash through rapids from the grandstand of canyon walls.
  — Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• With waterfalls and rapids blocking the path, the whale can’t get too far up the river.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
• Some rushed through the final rapids, while others got hung up on the rocks, got pushed to the side, or capsized.
  — Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
• My tent was pitched on the edge of a cliff, directly overhanging the rapids.
  — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 23 Mar. 2018
• Grab one or simply float on your own down this series of small rapids in the middle of town.
  — Brent Crane, Outside Online, 1 July 2018
• Other times, your tipsy little craft defies the odds and makes it through the rapids.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• Waterspouts twist across the surface of the lake, while the island’s uneven dirt paths turn to rapids.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
• No appointments are required for the free rapid and PCR tests.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2022
• Paddling a Bellyak through rapids requires a lot of upper body strength.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
• The ride was perfect, with the gentlest rapids and the only soundtrack coming from the water and birds around me.
  — Stephanie Stephens, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• On the other side of the globe last week, winding Hong Kong streets became surging rapids.
  — Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• With fewer strong flows to whisk this debris away, more of it is piling up at those bends and rapids.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• This becomes clear about 45 minutes after scouting Warm Springs, when one of the guides gets caught in a hole toward the end of the rapid.
  — Rachel Walker, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• While on a camping trip, Kali fell into the Rebecca Falls rapids and was swept away.
  — Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2016
• In 4th was Nakamura, who had improved his standing from the rapids with his blitz play, but just not enough.
  — Chris Chase, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
• In 1918, a barge-like vessel broke free from its tugboat and got lodged in the shallow rapids above Niagara Falls.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Nov. 2019
• Stronger currents can produce rapids like the ones near the North Avenue bridge on the Milwaukee River.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2023
• Behind Xiong, the Nu River flows freely, bumbling with rapids, swirling with eddies.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2016
• But West managed to safely hoist the boy into the helicopter and away from the rapids that forced him and his father atop a boulder.
  — Paul Davenport, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2017
• The Chattahoochee’s rapids are now used for white water rafting.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
• At first, this force is strong like rapids, flooding everything.
  — Angela Garbes, Health.com, 29 May 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024