Hurry is an English word with synonyms like haste or rush. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hurry meaning
- A rushed action.
- An urgency.
- An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play.
Synonyms of Hurry
Using Hurry
- The main meaning on this page is: A rushed action. | An urgency. | An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play.
- Useful related words include: haste, rush, move, speed.
- In the example corpus, hurry often appears in combinations such as: in hurry, hurry to, to hurry.
Context around Hurry
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hurry
- In this selection, "hurry" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, better, particular, bagudu and though stand out and add context to how "hurry" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in a hurry and a particular hurry. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hurry" sits close to words such as assertion, auditor and broadcasts, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hurry
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Trending: Fortnite game creators sued over 'Carlton Dance' and Hurry, hurry! (11 words)
Essex in no hurry at Chelmsford, handbrake, footbrake and truss applied. (11 words)
Back with Skyler grabbing a chinlock but Bey is up in a hurry. (13 words)
Check out the deals that we've gathered below, including our absolute favorite one, but you're going to have to hurry because the discounts that we've seen and stocks of the more popular items may no longer be around if you check again tomorrow. (46 words)
After Charleroi failed to sustain a drive on its first possession, Jeannette got on the board in a hurry as Molter tossed a short pass to Brown on the left side and the sophomore wide receiver raced 38 yards for the game’s first score. (45 words)
Cofie, who has already made official visits to Washington and Oregon, is in no hurry to make a decision regarding his future home, and plans to announce a list of finalists in the next few months before committing in the spring. (41 words)
Trending: Fortnite game creators sued over 'Carlton Dance' and Hurry, hurry! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Responding to claims that the budget was done in a hurry, Bagudu said “There’s nothing like in a hurry.
Trending: Fortnite game creators sued over 'Carlton Dance' and Hurry, hurry!
About twenty per cent of this video is the guard telling the prisoner to hurry.
After Charleroi failed to sustain a drive on its first possession, Jeannette got on the board in a hurry as Molter tossed a short pass to Brown on the left side and the sophomore wide receiver raced 38 yards for the game’s first score.
And on top of that you have a jury trial which can go sideways in a hurry.
As the armoured vehicles of Prigozhin’s mutinous mercenaries rolled towards Moscow on 24 June, putting Russia on edge, the Belarusian authorities were in no hurry to communicate about the unfolding events.
Back with Skyler grabbing a chinlock but Bey is up in a hurry.
Better hurry, though—you never know when our beloved LOLtron might make a sudden return and start its global coup.
Be warned if you’re in a hurry to withdraw your funds, because it can take one to two business days to withdraw funds from your trading accounts.
But, as a dog person who enjoys the trails at CU South two-three times a week, I confess I am in no hurry to lose access to that wonderful 2-mile loop.
But it’s a good, economical, “get you there” ride, good for a new or teen driver or any ecology-minded human not in a particular hurry.
But that works for a story about a young man in a hurry in the first act. And as both the music and the story take on more mournful hues in the second act, so, too, does Gonzalez’s performance.
But the San Francisco startup never seemed to be in a hurry to get it onto phones — where most people access the internet.
But they'd better hurry—the stranded Oliver Queen and another lost member of the Green Arrow family are both being hunted by a brand-new villain called…Troublemaker.
Check out the deals that we've gathered below, including our absolute favorite one, but you're going to have to hurry because the discounts that we've seen and stocks of the more popular items may no longer be around if you check again tomorrow.
Cofie, who has already made official visits to Washington and Oregon, is in no hurry to make a decision regarding his future home, and plans to announce a list of finalists in the next few months before committing in the spring.
Don’t be in too much of a hurry when making big decisions.
Essex in no hurry at Chelmsford, handbrake, footbrake and truss applied.
Even though the kids are out of school, they have other commitments, you’re still working full-time, and all those extra opportunities to spend time together can become fleeting in a hurry.
Events such as can get newer gamers in over their heads in a hurry.
Common combinations with hurry
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in hurry 89×
- hurry to 40×
- to hurry 35×
- hurry up 17×
- no hurry 16×
- hurry and 11×
- hurry the 9×
- hurry with 8×
- better hurry 5×
- hurry though 5×