noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frantic pace/rush/haste etc
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There was a frantic rush to escape from the building.
indecent haste
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The funeral formalities were performed with almost indecent haste .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Despite the lavish production, it shows all the signs of being assembled in great haste .
indecent
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No hurry: no indecent haste .
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The boundaries make sense, but there is an air of indecent haste about the timetables.
■ VERB
come
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But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
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What have we come for, in haste ?
get
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Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.
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In their haste the two friends got separated and Euryalus took the wrong path.
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Then she rushed back towards the stairs, almost falling in her haste to get back to the ground floor.
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In haste to get the mail.
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Mr Sampson - Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you.
make
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They are making no haste , and suffering no losses that matter.
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Then the three made all haste and boarded the ship and the crew pushed it off.
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We made haste inside, horse, carriage, and all.
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They did as he said, cutting the cables, making breathless haste , all as silently as possible.
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The connection with Fleming's Level should be made with all haste .
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When he saw Edwin Chase striding up towards them he made haste to make known one to the other.
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Roosevelt towards the end of his life seemed content to make haste slowly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
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Complex negotiations followed, in an atmosphere of haste , as Reagan would take office on January 20.
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Here haste not only wastes, it kills.
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I had to write in haste .
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More haste , less speed, Madam!
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She scaled its steep side in breathless haste .
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There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepy drivers with an almost reckless haste .
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They were on the run, and in haste , or we should all be dead men.