Example Sentences

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I am rushing to enlist; I am leaving the farm in your hands until my return from service in this glorious cause.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

And yet here I am, rushing to my computer late on a Saturday night because I couldn’t not write about him.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2018

At age 87, I am rushing like crazy to do a lot of makeup.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2015

But I will forever be able to quote verbatim the words of the critic who concluded a damning review with the remark that I write like I am "rushing to finish an undergraduate essay".

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2011

What I see is like the entrance to a tunnel, rushing away from me; or I am rushing away from it, away from that spot of daylight.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood