How to Use haste in a Sentence

haste

noun
  • The application had been approved with undue haste.
  • The thieves dropped two pieces in their haste to get away.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That can't be done with haste; there's so much of that already.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The spacemen gave him a stack, shut their hatch, and flew off in haste.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Back to Middle-earth, post haste!
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But shop with a little haste, as some of these goods are bound to sell out.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The whole thing, lovely leaps and all, has been achieved without a hint of haste.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The pro game has a way of filtering out two-way players with haste.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Purchases made in haste will be a waste as the moon and Venus clash.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Due to the haste, my pants garner a ricochet stain or two.
    — Matt Moore, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But haste also can be a costly approach.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2026
  • It was probably done in a quick haste, just, ‘Hey, it was shut down.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • In my closest friend who listens without haste.
    — Peter Folan, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2025
  • The music moves forward, across, back, and through—but never in great haste.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • But in her haste to get baptized and prove her worth, Villanelle still gets in her own way.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Occasionally the haste shows; a few of these pieces end up in the weeds.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Many returns filed right at the deadline are filed in haste, some carelessly.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In his haste to try to turn a double play, Castro let his foot come off the bag a hair too soon.
    — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2021
  • Then, in his haste to get the ball in, Bader lost control of it on the exchange.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2021
  • Yesterday’s gloomy rainfall got out of here with haste this morning.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Now, each one of them will look to make haste in their respective chase for a state championship.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026
  • In the haste, guardrails to protect federal money were dropped.
    — Aaron Kessler, oregonlive, 12 June 2023
  • If the producers are smart, Lynch should have her own Jinx-style spinoff post haste.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Whether fast-spreading, painful to touch, or quick to climb up your other plants, these weeds all need removal with haste.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Where is the haste inside the boardroom of a company like Chevron?
    — New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • As much as the city had sought haste, statue removal is not at all the same as demolition work.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Obviously, haste makes waste, and rushing for the sake of rushing does not make sense.
    — Mark Otter, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • So is there a sweet spot, somewhere between voting in haste and having your ballot go to waste?
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • Some state lawmakers are questioning the haste in which the contracts were signed.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
  • For once, the haste of a journal entry makes perfect dramatic sense.
    — Benjamin Anastas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021

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