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Examples of hurried in a Sentence
The general was forced to make a hurried decision.
She had a hurried meeting with her advisers before speaking to the press.
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The music mirrored chapters from Alice in Wonderland, with sounds like alarm clocks, guiding the audience alongside the hurried rabbit.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
The hurried nature of the plotting means that many of its highest-profile supporting actors — Ejogo, Brown, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Theo Rossi — are underserved.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Failure to do so will condemn Washington to a hurried and poorly thought-through approach to ending the war—a mistake the United States has made in every serious conflict it has become embroiled in since 1945.
—Thomas R. Pickering, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2023
Russian authorities charged her with disseminating false information about Russia's military before sentencing her to six and a half years in prison in a hurried, secret trial in July of this year.
—Arden Farhi, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
The hurried nature of the plotting means that many of its highest-profile supporting actors — Ejogo, Brown, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Theo Rossi — are underserved.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
Failure to do so will condemn Washington to a hurried and poorly thought-through approach to ending the war—a mistake the United States has made in every serious conflict it has become embroiled in since 1945.
—Thomas R. Pickering, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2023
Russian authorities charged her with disseminating false information about Russia's military before sentencing her to six and a half years in prison in a hurried, secret trial in July of this year.
—Arden Farhi, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Hurried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hurried. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.
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