Sentence examples for a hurried one from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a hurried one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is done quickly or in a rush, often implying a lack of thoroughness or care.
Example: "Her response was a hurried one, lacking the detail we needed for the project."
Alternatives: "a rushed one" or "a swift one."

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Underpinning his philosophy was the keenly held belief that a composed approach will always be rewarded more richly than a hurried one.

The occasion, however, was such a hurried one, and there were so many events crowding in upon each other, that I await more mature judgment [from Darwin], which I am quite sure will be very favorable" (AMNH 1909, August 30, Osborn to Couper).

The decision to fire Ms. Bartz seems a hurried one, and the board has appointed an executive committee to oversee Yahoo.

The concept is this: Eric Argyle (the terrifically understated Dave McEntegart), having managed to get himself killed, is now working his way through a purgatorial process — a hurried one, if such a thing is possible.

The "process," admittedly, was a hurried one; it had to be, what with the banking system frighteningly close to collapse, the economy in its deepest crisis since the nineteen-thirties, and job losses, which approached three million last year, accelerating to more than a half million a month.

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But Kumble had too much guile for Flintoff - county medium-pacers are one thing, world-class Indian spinners another - and hurried one on to trap him leg before for 15.

Westwood had looked reasonably comfortable until Naved, playing his first championship match of the season, hurried one through.

"Future generations are going to damn us if we don't get on this in a hurry," one architect of the Flagstaff plan, W. Wallace Covington, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Northern Arizona, said of what he called an urgent need for wide-scale forest thinning.

"The battle over DVD sales is going to get nasty in a hurry," one senior Hollywood production studio executive said.

He charmed with self-deprecation: after entering the studio in a hurry one afternoon, he squirted Purell from a dispenser and dabbed it under his arms.

'Well, I don't think we'll be doing that again in a hurry,' one of them (Darrell, that was it!) said the next day.

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