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sped

[ sped ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb

sped

/ spɛd /

Today the train station that once sped exports to all corners of the country runs one train a week.

Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.

One of the men sat on him and stayed there as the vehicle sped to a building of some kind.

With the news of an American being diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, Garry hopes the process may be sped along.

So, people sped by the models less out of puritanical deference to the naked bodies, but to keep up their steely reputations.

There, in the crush, he unceremoniously lost her, and sped like a maniac to the entrance gates.

But the rumble of distant guns told the destroyer that his short-lived hour of triumph was nearly sped.

The fat, heavy man looked at them for a second, laughed again, and sped through the porte-cochère.

It would be hard to imagine anything more inspiring than the vistas which opened to us as we sped along.

Nearly four months were sped since that fatal Sunday when the rebellion broke out at Meerut.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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