6046 examples of speeding in sentences

Time was speeding.

That boom meant a great shell speeding on its hideous mission.

A fiery, young horse can't run away, with an overdrawn check, and in speeding horses a tight check-rein will make them hold their heads up, and keep them from choking.

All the while the years were speeding on, but not quite so fast as the development of the automobile.

The miscreants had seized upon a lucky combination of circumstances; for two or three days, while Miss Dalrymple was supposed to be speeding across the continent, they, unsuspected and unmolested, would be afforded every opportunity to convey her to some remote and, for them, safe refuge.

As Mr. Heatherbloom prepared to issue from his neighbor's gate opening on the side street, the feminine voice of one of the servants in the rear of the corner house called out in alarm at sight of the strange figure speeding across their metropolitan imitation of a back yard.

I was not conscious that the new organization succeeded in speeding up armament production during 1917, and during the latter part of the year I was much concerned with the delays in ordnance production as revealed during 1917 and as exposed by the forecasts for 1918.

But the man was held to his place by strong arms, and the next moment the smoking, burning carriage was speeding up the shaft for the last time.

The dusty road is brown with rain, And speeding on with might and main, Hitherward rides a gallant train.

Across the glade they went speeding.

Come, none ever knew whence, and speeding none ever knew whither, it reached on that nighton this fifteenth of Octoberthe summit of its swift, awful, arching flight.

The night had now become so dark that neither the pony nor the girl could see whither they were speeding.

So that the couriers were speeding with all possible haste toward the National Capital, and the people of Cedar House could only wait and watch like those who were much farther off.

Naturally the three motorcycles, speeding through the streets of the ancient city, attracted no little attention.

The grade increased, soon brittle willow-tops brushed against the speeding sled: this brush grew higher as the two men, blinded now by the gale, stumbled onward behind the team.

I felt doubly certain of it when I saw a motor speeding towards me with a stout man, in military uniform and a Prussian helmet, seated behind the chauffeur.

And Comet and Peerless II were speeding away across that field, and behind them came handlers, and judges and spectators, all mounted.

As the Ebba draws nearer, the island, or rather islet, towards which she is speeding shows more sharply against the blue background of the sky.

But she felt, amazingly enough, suddenly quiet and joyous and indifferentand passionately glad that the wanderer from the skies had won safely through and was speeding home.

Betty Carnes (W); 15Sep71; R511840. Selections from American guerrilla: how guerrillas are speeding our victory, by Douglas M. Smith & Cecil Carnes.

Nearer, we see detached plumes and leaves, now speeding by on level currents, now whirling in eddies, or escaping over the edges of the whirls, soaring aloft on grand, upswelling domes of air, or tossing on flame-like crests.

Would she always be speeding breathlessly from one classroom to another, palpitantly yet sadly seeking for the knowledge with which she knew so little what to do?

I am like a runner who has trained for a race, and, ready for the speeding, finds that no race is on.

In vain! R.C. and Copple chased these two speeding turkeys, and Haught

Our noble navy was swiftly speeding to its duty.

6046 examples of  speeding  in sentences