How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb
  • His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
  • This can be hastened by putting the fruit in a bag with an apple.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 6 Feb. 2018
  • When the door fell shut behind it, Raff hastened over to check its ears.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Protests hastened the end of the Vietnam War.
    — Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • This is not a flaw or a failure, vaccine experts hasten to point out.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The loss of Nord Stream only hastened that.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
  • This decline has hastened since the tariffs.
    — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The size would be lessened, and the speed of processing would tend to hasten.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Some tried to resist and were pushed and chased by soldiers who used batons to hasten them.
    — Ranata Brito, Anchorage Daily News, 18 May 2021
  • The lifting of the lockdowns, in turn, is likely to hasten its spread again.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • The death of the big-screen rom-com hastened the death of movies marketed to women.
    — Time, 11 July 2023
  • Ponds form and later drain, hastening the collapse of even more frozen soils.
    — National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Well, to suppress the part trying to hasten the alien conquest.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The drag on the spacecraft hastens the final plunge slightly.
    — Joel Achenbach, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The presence of Watson and the extra cap room could hasten the deal.
    — cleveland, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Zelensky is aware that a summit with Putin could help hasten a deal.
    — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The new law will hasten the program’s insolvency date by about half a year.
    — Fatima Hussein, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The aim was to kill officials on their way into work, and somehow hasten the end of the world.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • But more bad decisions along these lines will hasten the day of reckoning.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Their work both shortened the war and hastened the birth of modern computing.
    — CNN Money, 27 May 2026
  • The ice she was packed in by someone, in an effort to save her, was instead hastening her death.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Their work both shortened the war and hastened the birth of modern computing.
    — ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • That sparked a national outcry and hastened the end of the lockout.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The ship's doom was hastened when crewman opened a gangway door to try to load lifeboats from a lower level.
    — Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2017
  • An ambassador's role is to build bridges—not to hasten the apocalypse.
    — David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • And that could hasten the end of a long drought for the state in presidential politics.
    — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • Ratliff knew this news would only hasten a push for some kind of Covid lockdown, which would cancel the tour.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Critics of the secretary seized on the report to try to hasten his removal.
    — Nicholas Fandos and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This not only proves fruitless, but the probes seem to be hastening the closing of the wormhole.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • How the lender's quirky mix of customers fueled its rise and hastened its fall (March 19).
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023

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