How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb

• His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
• 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
• 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
• Once closed, the breathable container will help trap some of the ethylene gas and hasten the ripening process.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2021
• The key to success in the game Plague Inc., from 2012, is to mutate in ways that both hasten the virus’s spread and impede a vaccine’s development.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2020
• While the pandemic may have hastened the rebound, it is underpinned by a shift that began more than a decade ago.
  — Joe Gose, New York Times, 9 June 2024
• The oil embargoes of the 1970s only hastened the pace of change: Auto steel now had to be both stronger and lighter, requiring less fuel to push around.
  — John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• This can result in feedback loops that can worsen fires and hasten climate change.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• Would the difficult process of building out Schwartz & Sandy’s hasten their marriage’s demise?
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024
• The slowdown resulted from a new law passed to fix Arizona election calendar issues and intended to hasten full unofficial results.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
• Good Business Pays’ biannual reports are intended to put pressure on major companies to hasten their payment practices to small businesses in the absence of government legislation forcing them to do so.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024