How to Use rapidity in a Sentence

rapidity

noun

• But the rapidity of Omicron spread had been known for a month.
  — Joel Zinberg, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022
• There was a rapidity and movement to Ohio State's offense that had been absent over the last two games.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• While the rapidity of gains is sure to remind some of the dot-com days, a few big differences exist.
  — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Stephen Paddock, the shooter, used a device called a bump stock to increase the rapidity of his shots.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
• The Swan Queen and Prince Siegfried begin with dreamlike rapidity; the music’s sped up.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 3 June 2018
• What's remarkable is the rapidity of Sanders' rise to dominance in the state.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
• That image makes his seeming surprise at the rapidity of the collapse of the resistance to the Taliban all the more shocking.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
• It’s a puzzle Wang hopes A.I. can solve, with rapidity.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 14 June 2022
• On the one hand, the rapidity with which the Omicron variant has spread has caught facilities off guard.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2021
• For them, the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• The burst of praise for Truss and the rapidity with which her program collapsed is something new, however.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• The rapidity of the shake-up is noteworthy since it’s taking place inside museums, a field with its gaze fixed on the past.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• But because of the rapidity of climate change due to carbon emissions, trees may not be able to move fast enough on their own to save themselves.
  — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Mass shootings – loosely defined as the murder of at least four people – occur with enough rapidity that one tends to erase the next.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2019
• The rapidity of Smartless’s rise is, frankly, shocking.
  — Vulture, 15 Mar. 2022
• Given the rapidity with which fire spreads, taking time to first call 911 seems counter intuitive.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
• The exact nature of that something was tough to gauge given the rapidity with which things unraveled.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• AR-15s fire the same sorts of bullets as small-game hunting rifles, and do so with the same velocity and rapidity (one bullet per pull of the trigger).
  — John R. Lott Jr., National Review, 4 Mar. 2020
• Howling its song through the Akrapovič titanium exhaust, the engine presents a rapidity that is at odds with the large, tall surrounds of the chassis and bodywork.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2022
• The blows struck by Ma Qiang's command fell with remarkable rapidity.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 16 Feb. 2021
• In its realism and rapidity, Russia’s response to its crisis was the best of any emerging market this decade, says Mr Kouzmin.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• The power of poetic style, which is largely the same thing as rapidity, is pleasing for these effects alone and consists in nothing else.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• At a robust 87 years of age, Dolores Huerta speaks with the rapidity, clarity and conviction of her younger self.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 26 Aug. 2017
• There is much—very much—ado about Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande: the rapidity of their engagement!
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
• Just such a stockpiled flaw was behind the rapaciousness and rapidity with which the WannaCry ransomware spread.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 May 2017
• The rapidity of the collapse is going to be terrifying.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
• Advertisement But given the recent rapidity of climate change, there are no guarantees that the trends of the past will continue to hold in the future.
  — Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• This project had drawn his attention to Pine Island Bay as a coastal area where the outer edge of glaciers might calve or break apart into icebergs with especial rapidity.
  — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Still, considering the overall length of the crisis and the time spent getting a handle on the problems, the major decisions on how to get the crew home were made with almost stunning rapidity.
  — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2020
• The rapidity of change leaves some scientists wondering whether nature may need assistance in adapting, such as with the planting of tree species currently more common to the south.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024