How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb

• His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
• The firm allowed Ellie Mae to hire lots of new people to hasten its move to the cloud.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Working Group said such trials would not hasten development of a vaccine.
  — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
• Budget cuts could hasten a move toward hybrid gas-electric vehicles in departments across the country.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2020
• But a concerted effort on the part of democratic governments can hasten rebellion lower down the chain of command.
  — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
• Already, the stock market boom has been shown to hasten the economic recovery for the wealthy and middle class, leaving low-income households struggling.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2020
• Challenge tests can hasten the work by placing volunteers in the path of the virus, though scientists are still learning about a pathogen that has killed almost 1 million people in just months.
  — James Paton, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020
• The potential departures could hasten an exodus of teachers from the profession’s aging workforce, just as schools are facing stark new pressures.
  — Sara Mosle, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
• While flight shaming and the coronavirus pandemic have spurred airlines to hasten the retirement of their oldest, fuel-guzzling aircraft, those planes don’t all end up in boneyards in the desert.
  — Siddharth Vikram Philip, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• That plan could hasten results, but is likely to see pushback from civil rights groups that generally oppose changes limiting voting accessibility.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
• When the door fell shut behind it, Raff hastened over to check its ears.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The presence of Watson and the extra cap room could hasten the deal.
  — cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
• The death of the big-screen rom-com hastened the death of movies marketed to women.
  — Time, 11 July 2023
• Well, to suppress the part trying to hasten the alien conquest.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
• How the lender's quirky mix of customers fueled its rise and hastened its fall (March 19).
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
• Against today’s four hearts, West led the jack of spades, and declarer took the ace and hastened to lead trumps.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2024
• Yet Park, too, saw the magnitude of the task and took the easy route: asking the chaebol to help Seoul hasten growth.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The tire changers hasten back over to the near side, grab the final two tires from over the wall and secure them onto the car.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2024
• Leaders like Abrams, who has pushed Democrats to pay more attention to the state, have helped hasten the shift.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 7 Nov. 2020
• Some tried to resist and were pushed and chased by soldiers who used batons to hasten them.
  — Ranata Brito, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2021
• Ratliff knew this news would only hasten a push for some kind of Covid lockdown, which would cancel the tour.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2021
• This is not a flaw or a failure, vaccine experts hasten to point out.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2020
• But this is not the only reason to hasten the transition.
  — Meghan L. O’Sullivan and Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• The move could hasten the demise of its huge energy sector.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• Today’s West led the nine of spades against four hearts, and when dummy played the queen, East hastened to cover an honor.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
• Is the city doing anything to hasten a solution to the problem?
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2023
• Democrats said the motion was in line with majority opinion to hasten the repeal of the 1864 law.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
• Their deaths were felt by many to have been hastened by their workloads, and the myriad pressures levied on the young, gifted, and Black.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Some newer models have a heat mode to hasten drying time.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• If the era of the line cook had been hovering pre-pandemic, the course of 2020 certainly hastened it.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024