How to Use hasty in a Sentence

hasty

adjective

• I made a hasty sketch of the scene.
• Seeing the dog, the cat made a hasty retreat up a tree.
• We don't want to make any hasty decisions.
• He later realized that he was too hasty in his decision to quit.
• The two were eager to downplay the idea that this was hasty.
  — Aaron Blake, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
• No amount of hasty cleanup will erase the words that come from the lips of a commander in chief.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• Isn’t this a bit hasty to be talking about the finish line?
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2021
• Even so, a hasty plan that goes bad is likely to take you down with it!
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• This began, as Lee tells it, in 1941 with a hasty dash out of Hong Kong.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
• The decision to spend ad money on the big game wasn’t hasty.
  — Jabari Young, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• Even with the hasty firing, Linton has no plans to slow down.
  — Kristine Owram, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
• But that does not mean Oregon Gov. Kate Brown was too hasty.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 27 June 2020
• Instead, the call became a hasty pass to Trey Lowe that never had a chance.
  — oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2021
• Still, many analysts think the sell-off has been too hasty.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• Such ideas have been floating around for years, but even these are too hasty.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• Tom Thibodeau tried to pause the sudden fall with a hasty timeout.
  — Brian T. Smith, Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
• Was there any hasty rewriting of scripts after her death?
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• That hasty decision to push Lenhard out has come at a cost to the city and its taxpayers.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• Its creators may have made a hasty exit, Dr. Adali said.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The company beat a hasty retreat from breakfast, then tried and pulled back twice more in the last two decades.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• At this point, [Mutch and Khuri] were sent back up the gorge to prepare something hot and to strike camp ready for a hasty exit.
  — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• Not bad for a guy whose slow start sparked hasty panic from some Yankees fans.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024
• His own mother and brother back in Guatemala plead with him not to make a hasty move to return home.
  — Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2021
• No need to make a hasty decision on such a weighty matter.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• Assumptions that this region will be blown or washed off the map are hasty.
  — Ted Caplow, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• So the trio of bounty hunters form a hasty alliance in the interest of survival.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
• The muddled answer prompted a hasty recess of the council.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
• Mod, hasty and handsome, the KLR 650 works for riders who want to explore all terrains.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• The German government balked at the idea of a hasty action—for one key reason.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2020
• Jacqueline Saffo, 71, lived in a unit there with her husband, Cory, until a fire last year forced them to make a hasty exit.
  — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025