How to Use warp speed in a Sentence

warp speed

noun
  • Then, his eyes sparkle, and the words come at warp speed.
    Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
  • The Ukraine story has moved at warp speed over the last week.
    NBC News, 29 Sep. 2019
  • For the record, Gruden and Carr have moved on, at warp speed.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But after a year, the hot southern Utah sun scorched the boat and warped the wood at warp speed.
    Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • But the shutdown pushed him to pursue that goal at warp speed.
    John Caplan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But one of the things that is great about sports is that things can change, sometimes at warp speed.
    Ed Rendell, Philly.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Sure, the 2020 crash and rebound happened at warp speed.
    Carla Fried, Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
  • Since then the iPhone has been developed with warp speed.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
  • That was three months ago, when De Kalb’s life seemed to be moving at warp speed.
    oregonlive, 25 May 2020
  • The hype train is already barreling down the tracks at warp speed.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • And will humans be making the jump to warp speed anytime soon?
    Mario Borunda, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2021
  • In the painstakingly slow field of botany, that’s going at warp speed.
    Wired, 6 July 2022
  • Grab your second-in-command, hop in the space ship and go warp speed to this alien disco.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The Pelicans' answer was to push the pace to warp speed in the opening quarter.
    Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 2 May 2018
  • Could the Sox go to maximum warp speed to fast-forward the rebuild?
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Josh Naylor is a big man who plays baseball at warp speed.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Blazing skater who always plays at warp speed and makes plays at top gear.
    Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • This shift hit warp speed with the sudden onset of the pandemic.
    Lauren Evans, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In Brazil, as in much of the world, China’s warp speed vaccines may still, in the most meaningful way, come in first.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The series went from zero to warp speed in less than two hours, which is pretty damn hard to pull off.
    Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The Screamer was approaching warp speed south of the boat basin when a Scooter Brat flashed out of the playground.
    Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • With home prices in the D-FW area moving at warp speed, appraisers are tasked to stay abreast of the market.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
  • But Tekka, which turns 30 this month, is the antithesis of the trend, a tiny time warp in a city moving at warp speed.
    Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
  • The Chet Holmgren hype train is already screaming at warp speed, so why not jump aboard?
    Joe Mussatto, USA TODAY, 6 July 2022
  • The rub is that to make her plan succeed, Lynch needs to both run at warp speed, and execute superbly.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Now is the time to embrace a carpe diem philosophy at warp speed.
    Chris Carosa, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Megan Thee Stallion's ascent to a household name came at warp speed.
    Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
  • At warp speed, the car still steps over railroad crossings and B-road yumps with grace and composure.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 13 June 2023
  • The company may be trying to slow down growth but that hasn’t stopped Wang from going at warp speed.
    Janna Mandell, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
  • As Speed crosses the finish line, his car seems to enter warp speed as the checkered finish line wraps around it.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 May 2018

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