adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hurried/swift exit (= very quick )
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The family made a hurried exit, leaving many of their belongings behind.
a quick/hasty/hurried breakfast
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I grabbed a quick breakfast and ran to the bus stop.
make a quick/hurried etc exit
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I chatted to a few people, then made a quick exit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a hurried dinner, the boys do their homework or watch TV.
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Her handwriting looked shaky and hurried .
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The day was a blur of hurried meetings and brief telephone calls.
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They made a hurried search for the missing letters, but they couldn't find them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From a hurried clearance, I think, Wallace picked up the ball and went past 4 defenders to the bye-line.
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Gedge smiled less and the attitude was so workman-like, it all seemed hurried and obdurate.
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Lunch hour meant a hurried visit to a launderette or one of the new supermarkets.
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Norman Fowler made hurried notes to his speech in reply.
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These benefits seem even more relevant in our present climate of hurried and stressful life styles.
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They were anxiously engaged on a hurried recruitment policy.
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Trade missions, diplomatic niceties, hurried journeys between here and Moscow, the lot.
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Very light, very hurried steps, but the bare, glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll.