How to Use hasty in a Sentence

hasty

adjective
  • I made a hasty sketch of the scene.
  • Seeing the dog, the cat made a hasty retreat up a tree.
  • We don't want to make any hasty decisions.
  • He later realized that he was too hasty in his decision to quit.
  • Guard against a hasty response.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Such ideas have been floating around for years, but even these are too hasty.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • Even so, a hasty plan that goes bad is likely to take you down with it!
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
  • He was wrapped in tent canvas and buried in a hasty grave in a churchyard.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • Even with the hasty firing, Linton has no plans to slow down.
    — Kristine Owram, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • No amount of hasty cleanup will erase the words that come from the lips of a commander in chief.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Assumptions that this region will be blown or washed off the map are hasty.
    — Ted Caplow, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning.
    — Deb Mazzocco, Twin Cities, 8 June 2019
  • Not bad for a guy whose slow start sparked hasty panic from some Yankees fans.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024
  • Tom Thibodeau tried to pause the sudden fall with a hasty timeout.
    — Brian T. Smith, Houston Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • To place them over both the Lions and Green Bay seems a bit hasty.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the guardsmen say their training was hasty and limited.
    — Dallas News, 29 June 2019
  • In a game built on chaos, the star running back rarely hurries or makes hasty decisions.
    — Will Graves, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Ominous clouds billowed over the canyon rim, prompting a hasty retreat to the ramp.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 15 May 2017
  • But don’t be hasty about buying electronics in May.
    — Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • Fight back with this hydrating balm, and watch the redness and the bumps beat a hasty retreat.
    — Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
  • Next year's flowers will grow in any buds that are still viable, so don't be too hasty in cutting them back.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 13 Jan. 2026
  • As hasty plans go awry and bodies pile up, the chaos starts to feel forced and the tension evaporates.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Grubbe's hasty release, not the bullet holes, is what Wells is most upset about, too.
    — Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 1 June 2017
  • His own mother and brother back in Guatemala plead with him not to make a hasty move to return home.
    — Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The company beat a hasty retreat from breakfast, then tried and pulled back twice more in the last two decades.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The reasons behind Long’s hasty removal aren’t clear.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • So the trio of bounty hunters form a hasty alliance in the interest of survival.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Ellen and Portia are nearly mobbed at the restaurant and bid a hasty retreat.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2014
  • Democrats have seized on the reversals as evidence that the cuts were hasty and wasteful.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, rushing into hasty choices can lead to regrets later on.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025

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