Examples of hurry

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In these they were subject to varying degrees of revision and improvement, yet retained a number of the shortcomings resulting from their initial hurried drafts.
The shootings were by nature often hurried and frenetic ; the likelihood of failure was high.
In addition, some of the pieces seem hurried, with one effect running into the next.
Yates hurried to claim that she had not meant to interfere with the work of historians of science by appropriating a scientist within her domain.
He hurried out into the forecourt, and on.
He was so impressed by its splendour that he hurried back home and returned with his wife and son to worship the image together.
She smells fresh flowers and cut grass as she hurries to gather all of the eggs that she sees.
Instead, they are hurried past on the way to the author's next short subject.
Each unwraps his gum, stuffs the wrapper in his pocket, and hurries to cross the street.
The most common reasons given for hurrying were to answer the telephone or doorbell, prompted by a concern that callers will not wait.
Of being madly hurried somewhere, whither he must go.
There are six such semantic types: modals, semi-modals, beginning, trying, hurrying, daring.
The tigress had seen me, or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter, as her tracks showed she had done.
He thought the agenda too large and the business too hurried.
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