Word Finder - hurrying

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To do things quickly.

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He's hurrying because he's late.

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Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

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If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.

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To cause to be done quickly.

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To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

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To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

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To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.

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The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.

She was hurrying away and looked frightened to death.

She changed quickly into dry clothing before hurrying down the back stairwell.

Five minutes later Dean was hurrying back to his campsite.

Not now, added her husband, hurrying after his brother.

He liked giving a painful lash on the neck to some peasant who, more dead than alive, was already hurrying out of his way.

Hurrying people with their smart suits on, scurrying along.

The warrior offered a low bow before hurrying away.

This did not suit him, but from March 1883 to July 1884 he was at home at a charming house called La Solitude, above Hyeres; this was in many ways to be the happiest station in the painful and hurrying pilgrimage of Stevenson's life.

She obeyed quickly, hurrying towards the demon.

I was hurrying home in order to avoid getting totally drenched by the April showers, which filled the cold night air.

The data is compiled what will continue shots and hurrying putts differently about things.

And as soon as the officer let go of the gate handle she turned and, hurrying away on her old legs, went through the back yard to the servants' quarters.

Her face struck Pierre and, hurrying along by the fence, he turned several times to look at her.

There was a stir in the ranks of the soldiers and it was evident that they were all hurrying--not as men hurry to do something they understand, but as people hurry to finish a necessary but unpleasant and incomprehensible task.

The bus driver was squirting some green liquid at what looked like a ghost, it was hurrying off the bus.

It can be an intense business, scouring the runways and hurrying back to sweatshops to slap together a run of similar items to have available on the racks within days.

Many people have donned the mantle of survivalist and are hurrying to make preparations.

At the bottom of the hole is a locked door, and, through its keyhole, Alice can see the rabbit hurrying off down a path.

Make sure you really consider your tattoo before hurrying to meet with an artist.

Hurrying causes anxiety, which can influence how you feel during class.

She found herself hurrying around him to the couch at his low growl and suspected he wasn't someone who ever repeated anything.

Hurrying through the brightest doorway, she recognized the massive bedchamber where she'd left Katie and Toby.

When she reached the top of the beach, she paused to catch her breath before hurrying after Jade, whose determined walk soon outdistanced her.

Hurrying back to Rome, Hadrian endeavoured to remove the unfavourable impression produced by the whole affair and to gain the goodwill of senate and people.

Marmont and Mortier with what troops they could rally took up a position on Montmartre heights to oppose them, but seeing further resistance to be hopeless they gave way on the 31st of March, just as Napoleon, with the wreck of the Guards and a mere handful of other detachments, was hurrying across the rear of the Austrians towards Fontainebleau to join them.

The Liberal party, however, realized the abyss towards which they were hurrying the country, and united their efforts to come to a constitutional understanding with the king.

Having insisted upon various conditions, prominent among them being military aid for the approaching war, he gave the imperial sanction to Frederick's request in November 17c'0; whereupon the elector, hurrying at once to Konigsberg, crowned himself with great ceremony king of Prussia on the 18th of January 1701.

His subjects vied with each other in hurrying soldiers to his standard, and in a few weeks the great Turkish host was in full retreat.

But Monk withdrew his force to London in January 1660, and hurrying events brought the joyous Restoration of the 29th of May.

But the right wing, not as yet attacked, either by Soimonov or by Pavlov, held on to its positions on the forward slope, and a column of Russian sailors and marines, .who had been placed under Soimonov's command and had moved up the Careenage Ravine to turn the British left, were caught, just as they emerged on to the plateau in rear of Pennefather's line, between two bodies of British troops hurrying to the scene of action.

At length the line of battle was formed, and the Gothic army, probably greatly inferior in number to the Byzantine was hopelessly routed (July 552), the king receiving a mortal wound as he was hurrying from the battlefield.

He rendered important services in hurrying forward troops in 1861, was appointed major-general of volunteers in June 1861, and during the Civil War commanded successively the department of Maryland (July 1861-May 1862), Fortress Monroe (May 1862-July 1863), and the department of the East (July 1863-July 1865).

King Richard, hurrying back broke from Ireland, landed at Milford Haven just in time lands to learn.

It is written in pure Baiswari or Eastern Hindi, in stanzas called chaupais, broken by dohas or couplets, with an occasional soratha and chhand - the latter a hurrying metre of many rhymes and alliterations.

Numerous additions have been made to our knowledge of the development and nursing habits, which are extremely varied, some forms dispensing with or hurrying through the metamorphoses and hopping out of the egg in the perfect condition (27).

Kris lifted his chin at Daniela, and the woman offered a curtsey before hurrying back to the Sanctuary.

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

They're turning back from the front and hurrying up their rear so as to form laager round their big guns.

Well, as I was hurrying along, I heard a great splash, as though something had fallen into the pool by the fountain.

I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.

Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage.

When he reached his sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying one word after another, came through the open door.

Then came the distant report of a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing.

Some of them were talking (he heard Russian words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy hurrying past them.

A third of the visitors had already arrived, but the Rostovs, who were to be present, were still hurrying to get dressed.

Many people were hurrying through the streets and there were many soldiers, but cabs were still driving about, tradesmen stood at their shops, and service was being held in the churches as usual.

The old count, suddenly setting to work, kept passing from the yard to the house and back again, shouting confused instructions to the hurrying people, and flurrying them still more.

Indeed, the hurrying first movement, ' Moving On ', seems to sum up the quality of most people 's quotidian experience !

Hurrying up the stairs, she dashed through the dining room and grabbed the receiver.

A retreating regiment, thronging and hurrying, blocked the street.