Sentence examples for quicken at from inspiring English sources

Fast asleep, our heartbeats quicken at a loud noise.

He showed plenty of courage and brilliance to quicken at the right time.

Again, you would have to have been in Manchester to experience the way that pulses quicken at the very mention of this meeting, which dates back longer than any supporter has lived.

Reliable sources attest to this already happening and the pace is likely to quicken, at least for those 48% of the population that don't support Erdogan, so divided has the country become.

May's earthquake that killed perhaps 90,000 people in China was one of the world's worst of the last 100 years, but this human tragedy may quicken at least one positive trend: the overhaul of China's heavily polluting and inefficient cement business.

One very upset customer asked Quicken to "at least wait until the end of the year so that people can have a complete year's worth of financial records for tax purposes?

"All our senses quickened at the thought of owl romance," she writes.

Declines in tax receipts, consumer sales and manufacturing have quickened at alarming rates over the last two months.

My pulse quickens at the prospect of five weeks' wallowing in all that unmitigated glamour.

Nobody's pulse ever quickened at the idea of a novel about a family of alligator wrestlers in a dilapidated Florida theme park.

Abortion had been legal until 1821, when Connecticut became the first state to make abortion after quickening — at about four months — a crime.