How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb
  • His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
  • Yes, pulling the flowers off the plant will hasten the fruit that is now on it to ripen.
    — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
  • When the door fell shut behind it, Raff hastened over to check its ears.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The presence of Watson and the extra cap room could hasten the deal.
    — cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The size would be lessened, and the speed of processing would tend to hasten.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The death of the big-screen rom-com hastened the death of movies marketed to women.
    — Time, 11 July 2023
  • The lifting of the lockdowns, in turn, is likely to hasten its spread again.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • The firm allowed Ellie Mae to hire lots of new people to hasten its move to the cloud.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Well, to suppress the part trying to hasten the alien conquest.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
  • How the lender's quirky mix of customers fueled its rise and hastened its fall (March 19).
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Against today’s four hearts, West led the jack of spades, and declarer took the ace and hastened to lead trumps.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Yet Park, too, saw the magnitude of the task and took the easy route: asking the chaebol to help Seoul hasten growth.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The tire changers hasten back over to the near side, grab the final two tires from over the wall and secure them onto the car.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2024
  • Leaders like Abrams, who has pushed Democrats to pay more attention to the state, have helped hasten the shift.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Some tried to resist and were pushed and chased by soldiers who used batons to hasten them.
    — Ranata Brito, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2021
  • Ponds form and later drain, hastening the collapse of even more frozen soils.
    — National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Two of them: Low rates distort the yield curve, which could hasten a recession.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Ratliff knew this news would only hasten a push for some kind of Covid lockdown, which would cancel the tour.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2021
  • This is not a flaw or a failure, vaccine experts hasten to point out.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2020
  • But this is not the only reason to hasten the transition.
    — Meghan L. O’Sullivan and Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • But a question looms: Could the pandemic hasten long-brewing changes in the way that new movies roll out?
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The move could hasten the demise of its huge energy sector.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Today’s West led the nine of spades against four hearts, and when dummy played the queen, East hastened to cover an honor.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Is the city doing anything to hasten a solution to the problem?
    — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The new law will hasten the program’s insolvency date by about half a year.
    — Fatima Hussein, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Danila said the state health lab is preparing to conduct its own testing as well to hasten the search for the cause of the injuries.
    — Jeremy Olson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Democrats said the motion was in line with majority opinion to hasten the repeal of the 1864 law.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Their deaths were felt by many to have been hastened by their workloads, and the myriad pressures levied on the young, gifted, and Black.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Some newer models have a heat mode to hasten drying time.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Good is not assured victory over evil in Shakespeare, though wickedness sets in motion those forces that will hasten the end of its ride.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025

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