How to Use at full/top speed in a Sentence

at full/top speed

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  • Training camp will be our first chance to see him at full speed.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
  • Two years of galloping at top speed around the globe and back again.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Bell went up and grabbed it with a safety headed his way at full speed.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Running the ball against Ohio State is hard enough at full speed.
    — cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Anna was looking at it when a train crashed at full speed into her car.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Six hundred starts in, and Logano is still racing at full speed.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • In the tie-down event, a calf is released into the arena at full speed.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
  • The race to the middle is on at full speed, and not everyone will be able to win.
    — Adam Prout, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Near the end, the bear drops from view into a gully, and the moose follows at full speed.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
  • Reiser raced after it at full speed, caught the ball and slammed into the concrete wall.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Autosteer flew into speed bumps at full speed, causing a raucous ride.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The car is a heavy lump already, and no one driving it will be trying to clip apexes at top speed.
    — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
  • So, what inspired the mom of two to hit the grounding running at full speed in her 40s?
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Medina waited to see if the ball would be caught before taking off at full speed.
    — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • The Lions have been going at full speed on offense all season.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The restrictions were put in place after parts of the track were found to be unsafe for trains to run at full speed.
    — Sam Drysdale, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • Hicks has been running at full speed and taking batting practice in recent days.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Higgins rammed into Hamlin at full speed, hitting him in the head and chest area.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Running at full speed, their bodies collided while Hill made the catch.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The right side of Romer’s body was immobilized, but her mind was running at full speed.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 June 2024
  • Blackwell, the coach said, was back running at full speed Monday morning.
    — Corey Smith, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The surface bordered the playing field, and Bush was running at full speed and couldn’t stop.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 May 2025
  • Many grew up during a time when the economy was running at full speed and the future seemed promising.
    — Berry Wang, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • They are expected to push high up the pitch and then cover large distances at top speed when Spurs lose the ball.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Men clustering around a ditch suggested the worst, as did women running at full speed through the dirt.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Bron Breakker bounced off the ropes at full speed and nearly broke IShowSpeed in half with a spear.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Smith had to track the ball at full speed, then look over his shoulder to haul in the ball nearly 50 yards away from Mahomes.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2025
  • Instead, Mullins ran at full speed, leaping up and reaching out his glove over the fence before crashing and falling on the ground.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Fever head coach Stephanie White said Friday that Clark went through some drills but was not at full speed in practice.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • And then Haaland took off again, hurtling toward the traveling supporters at full speed, his arms flailing in the air.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023

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