fast-moving
[fast-moo-ving, fahst-]
- moving or capable of moving at high speed.
- (of a novel, play, or the like) having sustained action and interest with events following one another rapidly; lively in plot.
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Origin of fast-moving
First recorded in 1930–35
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Examples from the Web for fast-moving
Contemporary Examples
Getting close to a bunch of giant, angry, fast-moving wild animals does.
The fast-moving, competitive capital of the United States forced him out of his more reserved shell, he says.
In the last scene, he uses his calculus of flow to rescue an Iraqi boy from a fast-moving, wind-buffeted river.
The baby would have found herself in a fast-moving and quickly thickening forest of huge legs.
This was an egregious error, a product of a fast-moving media culture in which getting it first often supersedes getting it right.
Historical Examples
The stedfast rainbow in the fast-moving, fast-hurrying hail-mist!
Anima PoetSamuel Taylor Coleridge
“It looks like rain to me,” Louise declared, scanning the fast-moving clouds.
Saboteurs on the RiverMildred A. Wirt
To have leaped from the fast-moving train among the rocks which lined the right of way, would have been fatal.
BrokeEdwin A. Brown
If he is right it is inevitable that time, fast-moving or slow-moving, must influence the conception of events.
Criminal PsychologyHans Gross
It was about all he could do to keep up with the fast-moving column and avoid failing still further to the rear.
Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6)John McElroy