How to Use hasten in a Sentence

hasten

verb

• His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
• When the door fell shut behind it, Raff hastened over to check its ears.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The death of the big-screen rom-com hastened the death of movies marketed to women.
  — Time, 11 July 2023
• How the lender's quirky mix of customers fueled its rise and hastened its fall (March 19).
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
• The move could hasten the demise of its huge energy sector.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• Is the city doing anything to hasten a solution to the problem?
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2023
• Some newer models have a heat mode to hasten drying time.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• An acquittal would hasten questions about the purpose of the inquiry and the cost to taxpayers.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Yet the injury also hastened his return to LAFC on a loan that includes an option to buy.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• This can result in feedback loops that can worsen fires and hasten climate change.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• In time, the buds die and the crown of the beeches thin out, hampering photosynthesis and hastening the trees’ death.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• That alone, Staley explained, should hasten Woods’ progress.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Others warn that the rise of text-to-video systems like Sora will hasten the elimination of jobs.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• The war in Ukraine is the latest accelerant that can hasten the trend towards crypto.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2022
• Western experts warned that the new charter would hasten the end of Tunisia’s democracy.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• The phone calls do provide some clues as Hernandez made fleeting references to forces that may have hastened his death.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Months later, in the spring of 2017, Zale decided to hasten her already painful death by refusing to eat or drink.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2023
• The main difference this time, in my view, is that modern innovations may have hastened SVB’s demise.
  — Rodney Ramcharan, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Late-season pruning is done to hasten fruit ripening when frost threatens.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2024
• Maine’s offshore wind push has been hastened by energy shocks.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• As a group, the patients reported a satisfactory sense of well-being with a low wish to hasten their own deaths.
  — Jonathan Moens, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
• Even when the show does find some forward momentum, Succession never seems to want to lean all the way into it for fear of hastening its end.
  — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Mar. 2023
• Assemblymember Phil Ting wrote the bill to hasten the state’s response to climate change.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• A number of actors on the picket line Thursday were heartened by the A-listers’ efforts to hasten a settlement between the guild and the studios.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The gloomy, windy environment over the city will hasten the start of Tuesday afternoon’s rain showers.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2022
• The net effect would keep the sea from becoming even smaller and hasten the process of lowering salinity.
  — Brent Haddad, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2023
• Smotrich and his allies have also vowed to hasten the pace of settlement construction.
  — Isabel Debre, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• Will the emergence of Christopher Morel hasten the departure of Jason Heyward?
  — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Anything too high will put your arms and shoulders in an awkward position and hasten fatigue in those areas.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2024
• As e-commerce hastens a warehousing boom in some of the hottest parts of the country, regulations have lagged behind workplace heat risks.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024