How to Use hasty in a Sentence

hasty

adjective
  • I made a hasty sketch of the scene.
  • Seeing the dog, the cat made a hasty retreat up a tree.
  • We don't want to make any hasty decisions.
  • He later realized that he was too hasty in his decision to quit.
  • No amount of hasty cleanup will erase the words that come from the lips of a commander in chief.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Isn’t this a bit hasty to be talking about the finish line?
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Even so, a hasty plan that goes bad is likely to take you down with it!
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This began, as Lee tells it, in 1941 with a hasty dash out of Hong Kong.
    Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The decision to spend ad money on the big game wasn’t hasty.
    Jabari Young, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, the call became a hasty pass to Trey Lowe that never had a chance.
    oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Still, many analysts think the sell-off has been too hasty.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Was there any hasty rewriting of scripts after her death?
    Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • That hasty decision to push Lenhard out has come at a cost to the city and its taxpayers.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Its creators may have made a hasty exit, Dr. Adali said.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • The company beat a hasty retreat from breakfast, then tried and pulled back twice more in the last two decades.
    Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • At this point, [Mutch and Khuri] were sent back up the gorge to prepare something hot and to strike camp ready for a hasty exit.
    Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Not bad for a guy whose slow start sparked hasty panic from some Yankees fans.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024
  • His own mother and brother back in Guatemala plead with him not to make a hasty move to return home.
    Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • No need to make a hasty decision on such a weighty matter.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Assumptions that this region will be blown or washed off the map are hasty.
    Ted Caplow, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
  • So the trio of bounty hunters form a hasty alliance in the interest of survival.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The muddled answer prompted a hasty recess of the council.
    Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
  • Anything that can smash, like a nice camera, should always be stored in lower bins in the event of a hasty turn or quick stop.
    Josh Max, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In a sport that has inherent risks by the nature of the game, the league is in no rush to make a hasty judgment on whether to play football or not.
    Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The predominance of grease in the American kitchen, coupled with the habits of hasty eating . .
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
  • That lack of training may have led to two crashes (one on June 28 and one on Monday) and may result in hasty strikes.
    Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Jim’s hasty decision to just cover Elric’s body with a tarp and leave him at the camp is going to come back to haunt him.
    Kelly McClure, Vulture, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The Taliban rapidly regained control of the country amid the hasty exit of U.S. forces last month.
    Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The president’s subsequent hasty exile baffled many of his supporters and led to conjecture that perhaps there were incriminating videos of him as well.
    Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • However, hasty investment decisions can lead to poor allocation of resources.
    Andy Busser, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

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