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
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Two years of galloping at top speed around the globe and back again.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
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Bell went up and grabbed it with a safety headed his way at full speed.
—Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2022
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Running the ball against Ohio State is hard enough at full speed.
—cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
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Anna was looking at it when a train crashed at full speed into her car.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
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Six hundred starts in, and Logano is still racing at full speed.
—Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
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In the tie-down event, a calf is released into the arena at full speed.
—Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
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The race to the middle is on at full speed, and not everyone will be able to win.
—Adam Prout, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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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
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Reiser raced after it at full speed, caught the ball and slammed into the concrete wall.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
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Autosteer flew into speed bumps at full speed, causing a raucous ride.
—Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
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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
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So, what inspired the mom of two to hit the grounding running at full speed in her 40s?
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
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Medina waited to see if the ball would be caught before taking off at full speed.
—Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
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The Lions have been going at full speed on offense all season.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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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
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Hicks has been running at full speed and taking batting practice in recent days.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
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Higgins rammed into Hamlin at full speed, hitting him in the head and chest area.
—Ken Belson, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
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Running at full speed, their bodies collided while Hill made the catch.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2021
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The right side of Romer’s body was immobilized, but her mind was running at full speed.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 June 2024
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Blackwell, the coach said, was back running at full speed Monday morning.
—Corey Smith, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
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The surface bordered the playing field, and Bush was running at full speed and couldn’t stop.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 May 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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