How to Use high-speed in a Sentence

high-speed

adjective
  • Japan opened the world’s first high-speed rail in 1964.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The decade saw the birth of the world’s first high-speed rail and the hosting of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
    Emiko Jozuka For Cnn, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Your round of golf starts with a high-speed boat ride across Lake Coeur d’Alene.
    Megan Dubois, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The next morning, Diop and I rode the high-speed train from Lyon to Paris.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Plus, the All-Clad can up the ante even more with a high-speed Turbo button,.
    Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That led to a high-speed, wrong-way chase along the Ferguson Slide bridge.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2024
  • More road trips are made via high-speed train than by flying.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • After 25 minutes, the high-speed chase ended when the truck’s front tires hit the spike bars and went flat.
    Tamia Fowlkes, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • The video splices clips of the high-speed races with videos of the performer singing along to the lyrics, and appearances from the UK DJ himself.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The team set up high-speed cameras that could capture footage of the birds at up to 500 frames per second.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Koehn describes it as a wispy layer of high-speed gas that’s coming off the Sun.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The bottom edge of the phone houses a high-speed USB-C port, a microphone, and one of the phone's two speakers.
    PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Plus, with its high-speed lacing, you'll never be slowed down.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
  • Whoosh is Indonesia’s new high-speed rail line, which opened last fall.
    Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The open-cockpit projectile was designed for high-speed, open-air joyrides on the street or track.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
  • She was impressed by the abundance of high-speed trains and electric buses.
    Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • These holes beam high-speed solar winds out into space.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Kenya is deeply in debt to China after taking out a loan to build a high-speed railway.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • In fact, older people may be better equipped to handle the high-speed jaunts.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
  • The light weight and high-speed retrieval make for easier fishing for novices.
    Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • This is a high-speed technology arms race for high stakes.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The new projects would bring passenger trains in the US one step closer to high-speed rail systems in Europe and Asia.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Wet weather and high-speed winds likely Friday night in Louisville.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Rapper Yuno Miles also makes a cameo, joining the high-speed chase while wearing a black mask.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2024
  • To fly, the drone needs high-speed propellers to throw a lot of lightweight air around as fast as possible.
    Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
  • Mint customers will soon gain free talk and text and 3GB of high-speed data roaming in Canada.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • The high-speed chase turned to local roads with Hadnot cruising along a 2-lane round before coming to a stop.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • These injectors used a high-speed stream of liquid to propel vaccines through the skin.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 18 May 2023
  • When the jets do come equipped with high-speed satellite Wi-Fi, passengers can purchase it for $8 for the entire flight.
    Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The world-famous scenery is also a big draw, as are the world-class facilities (think: on-mountain lodges, high-speed lifts, and plenty of restaurants and après ski bars).
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024

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