noun
definition
Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
example
We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
definition
Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
verb
definition
To urge onward; to hasten.
definition
To move with haste.
Examples of haste in a Sentence
In her haste, she slammed her shoulder against the stall.
Without haste or agitation he awaited what was coming.
Men on horseback were riding in haste toward the front.
If you have a mind to make haste, we may surprise them.
But haste was becoming imperative.
But no such model city was destined to be built; the necessity for haste and the jealous guardianship of rights to old foundations resulted in the old lines being generally followed.
The messengers made due haste to carry the golden prize to Athens.
Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, refusing to let her see them off.
In her haste, her foot slipped on the running board causing her to fall.
The king had only been warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes and gathered an army in all haste; Cyrus advanced into Babylonia, before he met with an enemy.
I had just sunk my head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by a straggling troop of men and boys, and I among the foremost, for I had leaped the brook.
Ours? said many voices, and the men were in such haste to clear out that the prince could hardly stop them.
In all haste Liszt procured a passport and escorted his guest as far as Eisenach.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?
The enormous programme of constitutional reform foreshadowed in the manifesto had to be elaborated in haste by Count Witte, the minister of the interior, under circumstances by no means promising.
In such a case, the best retort was to return in all haste in order to put more energy into the huge centralized organism which the emperor alone could work.
Farel wrote much, but usually in haste, and for an immediate purpose.
In her haste she dropped her veil, which the lion tore to pieces with jaws stained with the blood of an ox.
Much splendid timber has been needlessly destroyed, chiefly by forest-fires, but also by improvident farmers in their haste to clear the land.
Whether you want a free puppy or you want to give one away, don't act in haste.
There was no need for the haste necessary in reporting as with Timothy's abduction.
By this time the rising had attained the dimensions of a revolution; all the feudal levies of the kingdom were called out against it; and mercenaries were hired in haste from Venice, Bohemia and the emperor.
I was in haste to buy it, before the proprietor finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the hollow apple trees, and grubbing up some young birches which had sprung up in the pasture, or, in short, had made any more of his improvements.
People can usually tell which gifts were purchased in haste.
No leaven shall be eaten with it for seven days, and bread of affliction shall be eaten because they came forth from Egypt in haste.
Trajan was ordered in hot haste from Further Spain to the Rhine.
From the broad lands which they forfeited Henry made haste to reward his own.
Putnam gave the rope a quick jerk and his friends pulled him out in great haste.
Malatesta could afford to laugh at this farce, but he nevertheless prepared in haste for a desperate defence (1462).
Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.
In Asia Alexander learnt that Bessus had taken the diadem as Darius' successor in Bactria, but so soon as he marched against him Aria rose in his rear, and Alexander had to return in all haste to bring the revolt under.
He refused medicine to induce sleep, declaring "it is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone."
It should be eaten with loins girded, shoes on feet, and staff in hand because in haste.
In 1788 he travelled in Italy, but returned in haste on hearing of the illness of the king.
The states south of the Main had issued from the war as sovereign and independent powers, and they seemed in no great haste to exchange this somewhat precarious dignity either for a closer alliance among each other or with the North German Confederation.
Here was a youth making haste to give hostages to fortune.
With me want of prayer always leads to undue haste.
He came along early, crossing my bean-field, though without anxiety or haste to get to his work, such as Yankees exhibit.
When a gift giver takes the time to choose a gift instead of purchasing one in haste, it truly touches the heart.
Don't pick out something in haste though; you want the gift to be as personal as possible.
We need a tip line that will guarantee what we say is taken seriously and acted upon with haste.
The business of the divorce - or rather, of the legitimation of Anne Boleyn's expected issue - had now become very urgent, and in the new archbishop he had an agent who might be expected to forward it with the needful haste.
By the death of William IV., the duke of Cumberland had become King Ernest of Hanover, and immediately after the ceremony he made haste to reach his kingdom.
Shore would have proceeded more cautiously than Cornwallis's preconceived idea of a proprietary body and the court of directors' haste after fixity permitted.
One of the most interesting documents in the correspondence is a despatch of Caesar to his agent Oppius, written in great haste and in disjointed sentences.
He therefore sent a message in all haste to Musa, entreating him to come speedily.
Musa returned in all haste to the capital, and assumed the title of al-Hadi (" he who directs").
Mamun, on his side, sent in all haste an army of less than 4000 men of his faithful Khorasanians, and entrusted their command to Tahir b.
Mamun was in no haste to remove to Bagdad, but continued to reside at Merv.
The caravan which left Bagdad towards the end of this year returned in all haste before it had covered a third of the way.