How to Use rapid-fire in a Sentence

rapid-fire

adjective

• At the time, rifles were used largely by hunters, and hunters did not want a rapid-fire gun.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
• The answer came as part of a round of rapid-fire questions from host DeGeneres.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• Trump, a rapid-fire lie machine, did his usual song and dance.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• The jokes come at you so rapid-fire this time, even more than in the first two Deadpools, that one viewing is way not enough.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 July 2024
• Get to know Jordan by reading this rapid-fire Q-and-A below.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2024
• The hosts kicked the show off with a rapid-fire word association game.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
• But just a few miles from the bars and seafood cafes, Maribel Sandí was startled awake by rapid-fire, metallic bursts.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• The single finds the pair of lethal MCs passing the baton back-and-forth while spitting rapid-fire bars, one hotter than the next.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2024
• So the coach went back to Andrews, whose four points in rapid-fire fashion pulled the Bruins to within 32-23 at halftime.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Paramount Global has had an uphill climb amid the rapid-fire changes in the pay TV eco-system during the past decade.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 30 Dec. 2023
• The ubiquitous rapid-fire gun shots go on all day long, six days a week, residents say.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
• Prepare to be swept away by irresistible charm and rapid-fire banter as the play unfolds.
  — The Hub, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• And then the whole attempt to grab some funny answers with rapid-fire questions just nosedives at warp speed.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2024
• Even the rapid-fire credits sequence that opens the film was meant to evoke the tough-guy procedurals of yesteryear.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• Like some of the rapid-fire lyrics, the jumble of backstory may also seem arcane for those not familiar with the plot.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 20 June 2024
• The pair’s rapid-fire dialogue and odd-couple chemistry give a real sense of fun to the proceedings.
  — Christina Newland, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• Stephanopoulos mostly lived up to the challenge, asking rapid-fire, biting questions that did not let Biden off the hook.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 6 July 2024
• This is a tall order in the rapid-fire digital economy.
  — Mark Minevich, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• My Man Godfrey is a gem of the screwball era, a social satire with rapid-fire witty dialogue.
  — Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024
• In a rapid-fire text message chain, the producers kept each other informed on who had just arrived and were racing to the doors.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• Wachtel says Nicks made a demo with Kunkel’s drum part, but the guitar part — with its rapid-fire chugging — was being done with an echo.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Colbert asked Nolan about his phone and email usage during a rapid-fire barrage of questions.
  — EW.com, 8 Feb. 2024
• The same week, the court struck down a Trump-era gun restriction, a ban on rapid-fire gun accessories known as bump stocks, a win for gun-rights advocates.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 27 June 2024
• And his rapid-fire raps can still excite his concert audiences.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
• This fatigue-resistant muscle allows the fish to make lots of rapid-fire percussive sounds in a row.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• Without the closed captioning, viewers may not have been able to understand the rapid-fire word mangles spilling from Mr. Biden’s mouth.
  — Kenneth L. Khachigian, wsj.com, 7 May 2023
• Each battle is a three-round, rapid-fire competition: When one breaker ends their routine, the next starts up.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
• At the other Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the points often finish rapid-fire.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• The band announced a new era, their first without lead singer Chester Bennington, just before sharing new music in a rapid-fire strategy.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• The virtual forum was marked by technical glitches, rapid-fire switches between topics, and attacks by both candidates.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024