How to Use hurry in a Sentence

hurry

1 of 2 verb

• They hurried the children off to bed.
• She hurried off to her class.
• The teacher hurried us through the lesson.
• The quarterback was forced to hurry his throw.
• We hurried through the lesson so that we could finish early.
• Take your time. There's no need to hurry.
• All the talk made Scoot want to hurry back into the gym.
  — Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• Thorne got one more chance and moved MSU to the Terps’ 19 in a hurry-up offense.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2022
• There’s no need to hurry and pull the trigger just yet.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Nov. 2022
• The front door flies open and Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale hurry in.
  — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
• But hurry, with such low prices, styles are sure to sell out soon.
  — Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• But hurry, as there are only two more days left to use the coupon.
  — Bridget Degnan, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• And that doesn’t count the times Mayden was flushed from the pocket or had to hurry a throw.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• So hurry and snag one for yourself while the price is as low as $39.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2024
• So, Murphy jogged to the circle, exchanged a few words with Fouts and hurried back to the dugout.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2023
• The five of us got dressed, brushed our teeth, and hurried to breakfast in our ponchos and duck boots.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Our friends at the dining hall tried to hide their knowing smiles, telling us to hurry back.
  — Tasha Sandoval, refinery29.com, 21 June 2023
• Maybe the two young partners just needed to hurry this process along.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• Ham hash is a deeply savory, meaty way to hurry guests out of bed for breakfast.
  — Emily Nabors Hall, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
• But hurry, they’re bound to sell out ahead of the Amazon sale event on October 10 and 11.
  — Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023
• Marcos nodded to her, then hurried to his bedroom and closed the door.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Herrera and her colleague hurried along the road and soon spotted Willy.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The sale ends on Wednesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. ET, so hurry on over to the site, create a free account, and get some new kicks.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
• Wells then rushed to the clubhouse to put on his jersey and get his spikes before hurrying to the bullpen to warm up.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
• Emily hurries back to the sorority house, sloth in tow.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Cyrus held the phone as Timmy told the supplier that the seller and the runner needed to hurry.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2024
• So hurry over to Amazon before the best discounts are over!
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
• Prince William will likely hurry back to the U.K. after his events wrap on Tuesday.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• Are there dramatic moves yet in store, moves that will hurry this whole thing up?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• But when news of the Hamas attacks broke, Abdallah hurried to join his brigade.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024

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hurry

2 of 2 noun

• In her hurry to leave she forgot her briefcase.
• And none the rest of the half, as everything changed in a hurry.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
• The court itself doesn't seem to be in a hurry to make changes.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• So those are the things that have got to be addressed in a hurry.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• Things go bad in a hurry, and a lot of reporters on the Auburn beat still have the hats to prove it.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• Jack Statz got to the ball in a hurry and deflected it.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
• Rain can wipe out a blood trail in a hurry, so the shorter yours is, the better.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• Be sure to book far in advance as this spot fills up in a hurry.
  — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024
• Indeed, why the hurry to get in front of a moving train?
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Time hurries along through the year, but the years never pass—a great comfort.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• For a team trying to catch up to its rivals in a hurry, that’s a win.
  — Josh Katz, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• Best Overall Amazon Deals In a hurry and don’t have time to sift through all the deals?
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
• Its low weight also meant Electron left the pad in a hurry.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
• Xavier wants to play with pace and get into its offense in a hurry.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2023
• His 22 hurries were easily the fewest of his tenure as the full-time starter.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• None of them seemed to be in a hurry or to be interested in the others.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• And Mexico doesn’t seem to be in much hurry to solve the problem on its side.
  — WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• As written by Cain, Mark Ulrich's Shakespeare is a well-off man of the world in a hurry.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
• Utah is one of the toughest places in the country to play, and Florida’s young team will have to grow up in a hurry.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• Of course, these projections can fly out the window in a hurry.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
• The Fed will likely not be in a hurry to cut rates, if the data continues to come in this hot.
  — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Ballard had 45 minutes left to save its season, though, and got to work in a hurry.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2022
• And, actually, the Democrats tried to get the bill done on a party line basis and do it in a hurry.
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
• There were the people in suits, everywhere, all on cellphones and in a hurry.
  — John Woodrow Cox, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Adding Shohei Ohtani before the trade deadline could change that equation in a hurry.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 12 Dec. 2022
• Lean on this versatile recipe to get supper on the table in a hurry.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
• Against Wisconsin, however, the Terps faced their largest deficit of the season and did so in a hurry.
  — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 7 Dec. 2022
• The first was set up in a hurry on the edge of the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital.
  — Larry Madowo, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
• With the linebacker going with Chubb and Thomas blitzing, Watson is in a hurry to get the ball out fast to Cooper.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
• Four months later, Eubanks is getting used to it in a hurry.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 July 2023

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