haste
noun
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity.
hastes
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present tense formof haste (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But no! for deaf and blind with greed, To the council Judas hastes away, And there repeats in evil trade, The bargain once with Dathan made.
From King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth by William T. Stead
The man that hastes to become rich often finds that he has only brought on ruin.
From Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir
Hours or days or years it may be, Before hopes realization they see; And no sooner it comes than it hastes away, And others rush after no longer to stay.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley
The battle's o'er, the English arms successful; And Rivers, like an English warrior, hastes To lay his laurels at the feet of beauty.
From The Fatal Falsehood by Hannah More
Him with speeches fair 145 Æneas hails, and hastes his errand to declare.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
