How to Use at full/top speed in a Sentence

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• This equates to six roundtrips to the mainland at top speed.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
• Running the ball against Ohio State is hard enough at full speed.
  — cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
• Training camp will be our first chance to see him at full speed.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• The race to the middle is on at full speed, and not everyone will be able to win.
  — Adam Prout, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Near the end, the bear drops from view into a gully, and the moose follows at full speed.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
• So, what inspired the mom of two to hit the grounding running at full speed in her 40s?
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• Bell went up and grabbed it with a safety headed his way at full speed.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2022
• The restrictions were put in place after parts of the track were found to be unsafe for trains to run at full speed.
  — Sam Drysdale, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• Reiser raced after it at full speed, caught the ball and slammed into the concrete wall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Kingsbury hopes Brown will be at full speed by Wednesday.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• Unlike last year’s training camp, Kupp is at full speed.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• The car is a heavy lump already, and no one driving it will be trying to clip apexes at top speed.
  — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
• Higgins rammed into Hamlin at full speed, hitting him in the head and chest area.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• The right side of Romer’s body was immobilized, but her mind was running at full speed.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 June 2024
• Both of those trains are still far slower than those in France, Japan, and China, which has the fastest train in the world, clocking in at 286 miles an hour at top speed.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 19 May 2024
• Blackwell, the coach said, was back running at full speed Monday morning.
  — Corey Smith, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Many grew up during a time when the economy was running at full speed and the future seemed promising.
  — Berry Wang, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• Running at full speed, their bodies collided while Hill made the catch.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2021
• Medina waited to see if the ball would be caught before taking off at full speed.
  — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
• Instead, Mullins ran at full speed, leaping up and reaching out his glove over the fence before crashing and falling on the ground.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• Men clustering around a ditch suggested the worst, as did women running at full speed through the dirt.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The horse plowed into the younger Lukas at full speed and Jeff Lukas suffered a head injury that put him in a coma and did permanent damage.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
• Autosteer flew into speed bumps at full speed, causing a raucous ride.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• Hicks has been running at full speed and taking batting practice in recent days.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
• And then Haaland took off again, hurtling toward the traveling supporters at full speed, his arms flailing in the air.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• While watching from the comfort of your sofa may afford a view of the entire track, there's nothing like seeing F1 cars zoom past you at top speed.
  — Rebekah Evans, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 July 2024
• Frelick, coming in from right field, soared in the air at full speed with two outs and two men on to make a leaping grab on Anthony Volpe's would-be game-winner.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Lakers could, of course, simply be a team that needs to get into the tournament before unleashing James at full speed.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• How long the camera can keep firing at top speed depends on your choice of image format and memory card.
  — PCMAG, 12 Sep. 2024
• These in-house attorneys helped guide their companies through two strikes in 2023 and a bumpy economy but that doesn’t mean dealmaking and production were not still rolling ahead at top speed — and these legal minds forged the best path forward.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024