Example Sentences
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Hurrying away with a friend, he made no comment.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
Hurrying into the gallery: “These artists who do patterns and decorations, it’s like a revolt against the minimalists!”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2020
Hurrying over, the team doctor saw that the injury was to Grimes’s left knee—not the one with tendinitis.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017
Hurrying to complete his coaching duties, Mr. Garcia, of Henderson, Nev., deflected their anger by saying he was working on passing during practices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 25, 2015
Hurrying in, I saw they’d pushed all the parlor furniture back against the walls, Miss Love had put on a new dance record, and by golly she was teaching Grandpa the turkey trot!
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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