Sentence examples for hastily spread from inspiring English sources

Many trusted their fate to nearby construction workers who tried to catch them in hastily spread tarps.

Sex, for the most part, has been far from romantic: a predatory man violates a child with a penis like a "purple toadstool"; couples rut against the wall of alleys strewn with dog turds and used condoms; buttocks gleam in the shadows of public parks on hastily spread raincoats.

TEHRAN — With the believers pouring out of the Friday Prayer site in Tehran, Ali Akbar and his friends sprang into action, hastily spreading posters of the American flag on the asphalt and switching on their megaphone.

Stories alleging satanic rituals and a gay marriage ceremony on the boat were also published - but were hastily denied when rumours spread that the sons of some top officials and businessmen were among those arrested.

As violence spread through the city, Thiers hastily withdrew all troops and government offices from Paris and went to Versailles to plan his strategy.

It came together in just a few days, spread by word of mouth and a hastily written flier posted in stores.

Only the Regimental Combat Team 31, an understrength and hastily formed regimental combat team of the US 7th Infantry Division, was thinly spread along the eastern bank of the reservoir.

Radiation hotspots have spread to three holding areas for hundreds of hastily built tanks storing water contaminated by being flushed over three reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

Even when the government hastily agreed to lift taxes by only 15% after the protests spread to other cities, businesses stayed shut for several days.The strikes have now ended but the threat of big reforms to Iran's tax system still looms over the bazaar.

As news of the postponement spread, plans for prayer vigils by death penalty opponents were hastily called off.

The vicious tribal violence — condemned by one American official this week as "ethnic cleansing" — has spread with stunning speed since late December when Kenya's electoral commission hastily handed a second term to President Mwai Kibaki, despite independent reports of glaring voting irregularities.