How to Use rapidity in a Sentence

rapidity

noun
  • But the rapidity of Omicron spread had been known for a month.
    — Joel Zinberg, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022
  • While the rapidity of gains is sure to remind some of the dot-com days, a few big differences exist.
    — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Given the relative rapidity of the deals, more will be in the offing.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For them, the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Stephen Paddock, the shooter, used a device called a bump stock to increase the rapidity of his shots.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The rapidity with which her end nears is approached with big feelings, but also lots of belly laughs through a score packed with wit and wisdom.
    — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • There was a rapidity and movement to Ohio State's offense that had been absent over the last two games.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But because of the rapidity of climate change due to carbon emissions, trees may not be able to move fast enough on their own to save themselves.
    — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The exact nature of that something was tough to gauge given the rapidity with which things unraveled.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • What's remarkable is the rapidity of Sanders' rise to dominance in the state.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But, while clusters can’t be built quickly, they can be destroyed with surprising rapidity.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
  • On the one hand, the rapidity with which the Omicron variant has spread has caught facilities off guard.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Indeed, that same rapidity is repeating itself with the floods.
    — Hayley Smithstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The burst of praise for Truss and the rapidity with which her program collapsed is something new, however.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Probably not, given the state of the world and the rapidity of Covid-19’s spread.
    — Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel, STAT, 5 June 2024
  • The blows struck by Ma Qiang's command fell with remarkable rapidity.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Still others warned of the rapidity with which democracy could give way to dictatorship.
    — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Given the rapidity with which fire spreads, taking time to first call 911 seems counter intuitive.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The film captures the rapidity of time, with flashes of beauty and brutality whipping by in turn.
    — Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The first is the rapidity of innovation.
    — Ravi Kumar S, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The power of poetic style, which is largely the same thing as rapidity, is pleasing for these effects alone and consists in nothing else.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • That image makes his seeming surprise at the rapidity of the collapse of the resistance to the Taliban all the more shocking.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
  • However, the rapidity and scale of the decline suggested a more pervasive threat.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The Swan Queen and Prince Siegfried begin with dreamlike rapidity; the music’s sped up.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 3 June 2018
  • The muscles around the knee tend to shut down and shrink with startling rapidity once all that inflammation builds up around a torn ACL.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The sirens awakened many people, and persons driving to the downtown district for emergency duty saw lights in homes flashing on with rapidity.
    — Dallas News, 6 June 2019
  • The difference in Rostow’s own day, however, was the rapidity with which other countries were doing the same thing.
    — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The two women’s powerful, mysterious bond is sketched in sharp yet subtle dramatic strokes that are all the more thrilling for their breathless rapidity.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Game centers are shuttering with heartbreaking rapidity, due in part to competition from home gaming consoles and a tax hike that raised the price of a single play.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Just such a stockpiled flaw was behind the rapaciousness and rapidity with which the WannaCry ransomware spread.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 May 2017

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