sped

[sped]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of speed.

sped

/ spɛd /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of speed

Example Sentences

A fellow activist who witnessed what happened on Wednesday afternoon said that four armed men forced the pair into a vehicle and sped off.

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The shooters lay down in the bed as the truck sped off, Kaminski wrote.

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Back in 1995, the professionalism of the men's game was sped along by Australian mogul Kerry Packer's World Rugby Corporation, which - like R360 - got players to commit, in theory, to a breakaway league.

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That coverage sped past tiresome some time ago.

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One woman cradled her two-month-old child on her lap as the boat sped through brown currents.

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