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
• 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
• 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
• While the massive steel transmission towers likely wouldn’t be placed directly on the creek, the loss of trees will remove shade and hasten erosion.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025