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noun

the maximum speed.

Nautical. the speed normally maintained on a passage.

adverb

at maximum speed: to move full speed ahead.

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How to use full speed in a sentence

At full brightness, I can see well over ten feet ahead, and running at full speed is no problem.
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Adding to the book’s allure is the nostalgia of its pre-pandemic setting, the story unfolding in a Manhattan still bustling at full speed.
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So although the digital innovation gets the most focus, and that continues to go full speed, these things in biology, I think people will be surprised.
Reshaping COVID, Capitalism and Tech With Bill Gates|Nick Fouriezos|December 9, 2020|Ozy
I think it’s like full speed ahead for “Drag Race,” which is great because we all love to watch it and fall in love with new people.
Nina West spreads holiday cheer in two new videos|Joey DiGuglielmo|December 5, 2020|Washington Blade

Durant can work his way up to full speed however he sees fit.
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To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
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Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.
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He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
As long as may be necessary, Sam,” replied Mr. Pickwick, “you have my full permission to remain.
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It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
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One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
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