How to Use hyperdrive in a Sentence

hyperdrive

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  • Then check the hyperdrive and get ready to jump to safety!
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Think of it like the Metroid series for Gamecube, but in hyperdrive.
    Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
  • By the time each team arrived in San Antonio, the hype had hit hyperdrive.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The ball is tipped, and Chino Hills bursts into hyperdrive.
    Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2017
  • The central computer comes back with a rumor: The hyperdrive has been turned off.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • One of the coolest parts of the Star Wars franchise is when spaceship pilots engage the hyperdrive, which allows them to jump around the galaxy faster than the speed of light.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • The back-to-bak conventions will launch the 2020 election into hyperdrive.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The landscape of college football is shifting into hyperdrive with no clear end to the plate movement in sight.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Pittsburgh’s offense spent part of last season lost in the woods before hitting hyperdrive.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 5 June 2018
  • Fandango’s social media customer service team had to crank up the hyperdrive to respond to all of the users’ complaints.
    Tom Huddleston, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Unofficially, tamale season kicks off in late fall and goes into hyperdrive just in time for the Virgin of Guadalupe feast day on Dec. 12.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Why does the Empire only disable the Millennium Falcon hyperdrive and not the whole ship?
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • As those elite victims over the next weeks unravel what the second stage did to their networks, this story is likely to go into hyperdrive.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Perch buys them up — about two a week lately, sometimes paying more than $100 million — and promises its software can put their sales on hyperdrive.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The writing, rewriting and re-rewriting of the tax code has sent tax professionals into a frantic hyperdrive.
    Tiffany Hsu and Julie Creswell, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • No citizen should be denied his or her dose of galactic hyperdrive; curb that prerogative, and the Supreme Court would have something to say on the matter.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Even though Josephine may not amount to much, forecasters are warning that the Atlantic hurricane season is expected to go into hyperdrive in the next few weeks.
    Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • And almost as fast as everything in their world was launched into hyperdrive, everything stopped.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • With such questions already swirling around, a statement would send those topics into hyperdrive, which is just a new cause of uncertainty and new set of baggage.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Katz believes next week’s NFTs, which include candid videos and images taken by Sobande and other team members and friends, capture the nuances of a moment in hyperdrive.
    Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2021
  • Over the past 12 months, the contactless payments revolution has been thrown into hyperdrive due to the pandemic.
    Victor Ho, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This was the 19th walk-through their broker, Charlotte Durham, had done for out-of-state clients since Montana’s virus lockdown ended in late April and its real estate market flipped into hyperdrive.
    Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In a subset of covid-19 cases, researchers have found, the immune system battling the infection goes into hyperdrive.
    Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Your Pleasure?, like Ware’s vision of disco pushed into hyperdrive.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Yet when asked about Williams, those coaches’ compliments blast into hyperdrive.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
  • On the second go around, Incom and Subpro decided to pack in a hyperdrive off the assembly line with an astromech socket included.
    Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2020
  • At that moment, my ten-year-old brain—which had, in the past few years, already begun to master compartmentalization—went into hyperdrive.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Everything seems to switch into hyperdrive with your mind racing for solutions amid the inner critic thoughts that are muddying the waters.
    Janice Marturano, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Recall the loud, fuzzy modem crash as the Millennium Falcon went into hyperdrive, or the psychedelic portal opening in 2001.
    Whet Moser, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019
  • At least far from the reality that many Americans recognized before recent months and years of unrest and protest, of a presidential impeachment and a pandemic — the hyperdrive, Trump-era shift that has left many satirists struggling to keep up.
    Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020

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