Example Sentences

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A cutoff of that water supply in fighting in 2014 had hastened an outflow of refugees from the city.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2022

When the dam was recaptured, American engineers and scientists worried that the lapse in grouting had hastened the erosion of the dam’s foundation.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

Scott didn’t, it bombed; but by bombing, it helped bring about the death of the anti-auteur era in 1990, no less than Heaven’s Gate had hastened the death of the auteur era in 1980.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2012

Moralists believed that female bathers corrupted men and had hastened the fall of the Roman Empire.

From Washington Post

At the first opportunity they had hastened back to the ancestral hearth-stone.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem