How to Use at full/top speed in a Sentence
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This equates to six roundtrips to the mainland at top speed.
— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024 -
Running the ball against Ohio State is hard enough at full speed.
— cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022 -
Training camp will be our first chance to see him at full speed.
— Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023 -
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 -
So, what inspired the mom of two to hit the grounding running at full speed in her 40s?
— Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Bell went up and grabbed it with a safety headed his way at full speed.
— Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
Reiser raced after it at full speed, caught the ball and slammed into the concrete wall.
— Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022 -
Kingsbury hopes Brown will be at full speed by Wednesday.
— José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2022 -
Higgins rammed into Hamlin at full speed, hitting him in the head and chest area.
— Ken Belson, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023 -
Blackwell, the coach said, was back running at full speed Monday morning.
— Corey Smith, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023 -
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 -
Running at full speed, their bodies collided while Hill made the catch.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2021 -
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 -
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 -
Autosteer flew into speed bumps at full speed, causing a raucous ride.
— Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023 -
Hicks has been running at full speed and taking batting practice in recent days.
— Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023 -
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 -
Frelick, coming in from right field, soared in the air at full speed with two outs and two men on to make a leaping grab on Anthony Volpe's would-be game-winner.
— Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2023 -
The Lakers could, of course, simply be a team that needs to get into the tournament before unleashing James at full speed.
— Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024 -
On Tuesday, Kupp went through most team and individual drills at full speed.
— Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023 -
The Lakers want some semblance of Westbrook being Westbrook – aggressive and at full speed.
— Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021 -
Receiver Jaedon Wilson, who had been dealing with a hamstring tweak, was back at full speed and had a couple of good catches.
— Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Both still need budget approval to keep operating at full speed.
— Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024 -
How about flying through obstacles at full speed, backwards?
— IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023 -
Austin Riley opened the seventh inning with a drive to right field and Bryant, running at full speed, appeared poised to catch the ball in stride on the warning track before the ball barely cleared his glove for a double.
— Chris Haft, ajc, 20 Sep. 2021 -
Later, on lap three, Lando Norris loses control of his McLaren on turn 11 after hitting a bump in the track and careens into a wall at top speed.
— David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024 -
The biggest change is that your ship can fully maneuver while at full speed versus the one-third limitation of the original game.
— Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 July 2023 -
Disney joined its rivals in a kind of arms race to rapidly swell its customer base at top speed and all costs, and for a while, the markets cheered, sending Disney shares to an all-time high in early 2021.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
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