How to Use in a hurry in a Sentence
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Overhead, airplanes screech across a fat blue sky in a hurry to who knows where.
—Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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More likely, the milk, eggs and seafood aisles will go empty in a hurry.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
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The lime had been worked hard, the cachaça still had some roughness and nobody at the table was in a hurry.
—Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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Quinn Hughes is more in a hurry to play hockey than to get his long-term future settled.
—CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
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The Saints weren’t even in a hurry-up offense when the Lions were struggling.
—David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
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Growth is a buzzword for Sunderland, a club that has looked in a hurry over the last 12 months.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 22 July 2026
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Team Spoon went heavy on the bigs, and Team Cooper seems to have more players who can get hot in a hurry.
—Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 15 July 2026
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Two people were seen carrying heavy objects from the house into the van before driving off in a hurry.
—Jeremy Greenberg, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
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From an early age, Forster was in a hurry, and as his biographer, Wulf must dash along, too.
—Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026
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Things can change in a hurry (just ask the suddenly red-hot Boston Red Sox).
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 22 July 2026
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If the seller learns the buyer is funded, in a hurry or already committed to the name, the price can move quickly.
—Michael Gargiulo, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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The Atlanta right-hander was getting outs in a hurry Thursday.
—CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
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Ferentz, who became the Big Ten’s winningest coach last season, will find out how good his team is in a hurry.
—John Bohnenkamp, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
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The founders who get the best valuations, the cleanest terms, and the smoothest closings are almost always the ones who were not in a hurry.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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Any further struggles from here for USC’s defense could spiral in a hurry.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
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For now, the VIX futures curve is sloped healthily upward into coming months, but things can shift in a hurry.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
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The Blues are a team looking to rebuild in a hurry, so Snuggerud would have had room to wheel in a way that was not available to Howard.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 17 July 2026
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The practice is intended to keep foot traffic moving, allowing riders in a hurry to walk up or down while others remain standing.
—Mike Stunson, USA Today, 29 July 2026
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Nothing stops someone in a hurry from pasting a payroll appendix into a public chatbot for a summary.
—Ethan Pham, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
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After a promising start, with a takeaway on the Bears’ first possession, the wheels came off Ejiro Evero’s defense in a hurry.
—Joseph Person, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
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In pine forests across the region, bark beetle infestations have forced managers to fell swaths of dead trees in a hurry to contain the arboreal contagion.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 15 May 2026
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The Valkyries’ offensive droughts this season have largely come in the third quarter, and the Liberty have the talent to put up points in a hurry.
—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
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Paper towels are a household staple and for good reason—they're convenient, disposable, and perfect for tackling spills in a hurry.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 8 July 2026
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The Golden State Valkyries, in their second competitive summer, have gotten a lot right in a hurry, and with good timing at that.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
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The Bears' defense is in a hurry to improve this week after giving up 37 points to Carolina in Week 1.
—Jori Parys, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
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If 97 and 29 do share the ice, the second-line centre appears to be Nugent-Hopkins, which could become hairy in a hurry.
—Janson Duench, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
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The Dodgers’ recent success, though, has changed the public’s perception of baseball’s competitive balance in a hurry.
—Molly Geary, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026
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An unusually intense El Niño event is gathering strength in the tropical Pacific in a hurry.
—Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
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As my colleague Jonathan Chait detailed in an essay earlier last week, this DSA isn’t just liberalism in a hurry.
—David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
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Rotating between a starter and an impact substitute, Barcola seemed to be in a hurry to stamp his attacking authority on games and set France on the front foot.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 21 July 2026
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