Hastened in example sentence

Clerk after clerk hastened into the square by one or other of the entrances, and looking up at the Hall clock, accelerated or decreased his rate of walking according to the time at which his office hours nominally commenced; the half-past nine o'clock people suddenly becoming very brisk, and the ten o'clock gentlemen falling into a pace of most aristocratic slowness.

More example sentences with word hastened

We understand that these will become much more virulent, that what we see today is this interweaving of societies, of systems, fastened by technologies and hastened by just-in-time management systems.

It undoubtedly hastened the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The Macron MethodLONDON – Emmanuel Macron’s election to the French presidency provides the European Union with an opportunity to move past the internal conflicts that have hastened its disintegration.

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement has only hastened its unraveling.

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