Example Sentences

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The report adds that coastal erosion rates have been hastening, with some spots on the coastline losing up to 100 feet of land to the sea each year.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

Ever since, passing tourists and fellow fanciers have been hastening to reassure him that he was right as rain.

From Time Magazine Archive

I felt that Warrington could not have been other than he said he was and still have been hastening to meet those eyes.

From Guy Garrick by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Accident has favored the foundation of the social compact; and once founded, the facts have been hastening to their consummation faster than the monikin mind has been able to keep company with them.

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore

For two or three days they would have been hastening about the globe in steamships and railroad trains, and only yesterday would they have come upon the magical possibilities of electricity.

From The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by Robinson, James Harvey