How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb

• His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
• Cooper said such incidents would hasten the call for gun control.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• Trump has since repeatedly promised to hasten their approval, widen access and provide them to Americans for free.
  — Riley Griffin, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• If the polls can be believed, Covid-19 might only hasten what the American people plan to do at the ballot box.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
• Taylor wondered if Corcoran, like himself, goes back and forth between wanting to live in bleak conditions or hasten his own death to put an end to it.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2024
• Instead, legacy companies made cord-cutting more attractive than ever and hastened the speed of the bundle’s inevitable decline.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
• That data is then sold to advertisers who push products and services that hasten gentrification, and displace the people whose data was collected.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 29 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An acquittal would hasten questions about the purpose of the inquiry and the cost to taxpayers.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Yet the injury also hastened his return to LAFC on a loan that includes an option to buy.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Plenty of research since the start of the pandemic has already shown how polluted air can hasten the spread of the virus.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024