How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb
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  • His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
  • However, the doctor added, some research suggests that a five-day course of high-dose steroids early on can hasten healing.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Such shoreline structures can hasten beach erosion, and state officials were trying to ensure that didn’t happen.
    — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The rodents burrow into the bluffs and hasten erosion along Carlsbad Boulevard.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
  • That hastens the need for post-quantum cryptographic systems that can secure both quantum computers and classic ones.
    — Peter High, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • History also suggests that Trump’s defeat could hasten a change in corporate culture.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Attempt to save her and risk her dying anyway, or hasten to upload her consciousness to The PreServer.
    — Lexi Pandell, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Today’s echoes of this national debate hasten my mind back to how the issue of police reform shaped political change in Birmingham.
    — al, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Milwaukee County expects to be finished the day before Thanksgiving, an event widely expected to hasten the spread of the virus.
    — Scott Bauer and Doug Glass, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • In some cases, social isolation can hasten death — particularly if the person already has a serious illness.
    — Chris Serres, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Such orders could lessen or avoid an economic cliff of expiring protections for renters, homeowners and some borrowers, which experts fear could hasten an economic contraction.
    — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 22 Nov. 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 death of the big-screen rom-com hastened the death of movies marketed to women.
    — Time, 11 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some newer models have a heat mode to hasten drying time.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • If the era of the line cook had been hovering pre-pandemic, the course of 2020 certainly hastened it.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also publicly pressured the Biden administration to hasten arms transfers.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 4 Oct. 2024

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