Sentence examples for quickening with from inspiring English sources
"The response was explosive," Wilson says, his voice still quickening with excitement.
You've always said that all English women - 'OfOf a certain age, a certain class - ' 'Are pear-shaped, and in death Mrs Green inverts this state; when, quickening with putrefaction, pullulating with drosophila grubs, head swollen with fluid, she becomes - for the first time in decades - the body of the pear, rather than its stalk.' 'Oh spare us this, Lithy, this pissy little guignol.
The pace of the handover to Afghan forces is quickening, with checkpoints and patrol bases being handed over rapidly, and progress in Nad Ali scrutinised closely as a model for elsewhere.
The 1820s saw that process quickening, with relatively greater strength in Tasmania.
The 1980s, which saw some moderate reforms, produced some quickening, with an economic growth rate of 5%, which may now seem sadly slow but was much faster than what had happened in the early decades of independence, not to mention a century of colonial semi-stagnation.
The pace of life seems to quicken with the altitude.
The pace of the narrative quickens with suspense.
From the 1760s onward, growth quickened with the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
I HAVE finally learned to swim -- an accomplishment that makes my 55-year-old heart quicken with joy.
Unlike most modern diversions, it doesn't quicken with excitement; it slows down into something like mindfulness.
Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
