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How to use the word hurried in a Sentence?

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He kind of hurried out of the car, and then was like ‘I’m going to find someone else to hitchhike,’ and we’re like, okay, it was a weird situation.

Miranda Baker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation… we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

added by Normando
2 years ago

The first love-letter is an epoch in love's happy season — it makes assurance doubly sure — that which has hitherto, perhaps, only found utterance in sweet and hurried words, now seems to take a more tangible existence. A love-letter is a proof of how dearly, even in absence, you are remembered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

There's less time than ever in the primary care visits because the doctors are increasingly hurried, it's just that much easier to click a button, order the test and move on because it takes so much more effort and time to actually counsel the patient and to explain to the patient why a test is unnecessary.

John Mafi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

Clive Staples Lewis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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