How to Use hyperdrive in a Sentence

hyperdrive

noun
  • Think of it like the Metroid series for Gamecube, but in hyperdrive.
    Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
  • By the time each team arrived in San Antonio, the hype had hit hyperdrive.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Pittsburgh’s offense spent part of last season lost in the woods before hitting hyperdrive.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 5 June 2018
  • The landscape of college football is shifting into hyperdrive with no clear end to the plate movement in sight.
    Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 30 Aug. 2021
  • And almost as fast as everything in their world was launched into hyperdrive, everything stopped.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Yet when asked about Williams, those coaches’ compliments blast into hyperdrive.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
  • As those elite victims over the next weeks unravel what the second stage did to their networks, this story is likely to go into hyperdrive.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Fandango’s social media customer service team had to crank up the hyperdrive to respond to all of the users’ complaints.
    Tom Huddleston, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The writing, rewriting and re-rewriting of the tax code has sent tax professionals into a frantic hyperdrive.
    Tiffany Hsu and Julie Creswell, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The back-to-bak conventions will launch the 2020 election into hyperdrive.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • With such questions already swirling around, a statement would send those topics into hyperdrive, which is just a new cause of uncertainty and new set of baggage.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Perch buys them up — about two a week lately, sometimes paying more than $100 million — and promises its software can put their sales on hyperdrive.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • At that moment, my ten-year-old brain—which had, in the past few years, already begun to master compartmentalization—went into hyperdrive.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Everything seems to switch into hyperdrive with your mind racing for solutions amid the inner critic thoughts that are muddying the waters.
    Janice Marturano, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Over the past 12 months, the contactless payments revolution has been thrown into hyperdrive due to the pandemic.
    Victor Ho, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Warp drives, hyperdrives, and other fantastical propulsion devices minimize the mind-boggling scale of space down to a morning commute.
    Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Why does the Empire only disable the Millennium Falcon hyperdrive and not the whole ship?
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • In a subset of covid-19 cases, researchers have found, the immune system battling the infection goes into hyperdrive.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • False polarization existed long before social media, but social media users have set this process into hyperdrive.
    Christopher A. Bail, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • No citizen should be denied his or her dose of galactic hyperdrive; curb that prerogative, and the Supreme Court would have something to say on the matter.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Even though Josephine may not amount to much, forecasters are warning that the Atlantic hurricane season is expected to go into hyperdrive in the next few weeks.
    Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • On the second go around, Incom and Subpro decided to pack in a hyperdrive off the assembly line with an astromech socket included.
    Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The modern workplace was at an inflection point spurred by technological and cultural changes even before the pandemic, but the health crisis kicked the pace of change into hyperdrive.
    Iese Business School, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • The inner workings of the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive were never quite so important.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Back in July of 1917, there was a scandalous story in New Windsor that sent many busybodies into hyperdrive.
    Frank Batavick, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Along with changing leaves and all things pumpkin spice, fall temperatures have America’s bears entering hibernation hyperdrive.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2020
  • But that schedule pushes the typical NBA calendar into hyperdrive.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Katz believes next week’s NFTs, which include candid videos and images taken by Sobande and other team members and friends, capture the nuances of a moment in hyperdrive.
    Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2021
  • And this strategy often takes place during highly competitive holiday season shopping periods when businesses go into hyperdrive.
    Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Despite the admonitions of Beth’s husband Dominic, Beth does not mind her own business and instead launches into amateur detective hyperdrive.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020

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