Example Sentences

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By taking this action I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing, which is so desperately needed in America.

From Time Magazine Archive

A swift choice would provide an ironic coda: by hastening Walter's departure, Allen will have hastened his own as well.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even if they should not, and should pass away as similar revolutionary groups have passed before, they will have hastened tremendously the closer knitting together of all groups of trade unionists.

From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice

And the moral of this story is, that whoever listens not to the admonition of friends, with the hearing of acceptance, will have hastened his own destruction.

From The Talking Beasts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

And when for the underworld the day of redemption arrives, it will be you, my sisters, the simple, the suffering, enduring women that will have hastened it!

From London's Underworld by Holmes, Thomas