(v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
(v. i.) To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing the pH of local anesthetics with sodium bicarbonate has been reported to hasten their onset of action.
(2) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
(3) The decomposition of nafcillin and penicillin G solutions was hastened significantly by magnesium sulphate due to effect on the pH values of the solutions.
(4) Tetrodotoxin (1.6 x 10(-6) M) delayed the onset, whereas monensin (10(-5) M) hastened it.
(5) Doctors fear being sued if morphine given to relieve terminally ill patients' pain hastens their death.
(6) Even if injected at 15 days 8 hrs, exogenous androgens do not hasten or anticipate the formation of Wolfian derivatives (epididymides and seminal vesicles) in males or in females.
(7) Analysis of the temperature effect on FeCN-supported O2 evolution by spheroplasts suggests that catechol shifts the temperature maxima to a lower temperature and thereby hastens the decay of O2 evolution capacity by heat as compared to the normal spheroplasts.
(8) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
(9) Tell us what you will do to hasten it, and what you need from government to do it faster.
(10) BP management says it supports the resolution but ultimately believes that politicians must take primary responsibility for tackling global warming and hastening in a low-carbon future.
(11) Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) reinfusion appears to hasten hematologic reconstitution following myeloablative therapy.
(12) However, when compared with posterior instrumentation alone, it does help ensure canal reduction and alignment, which may aid recovery and hasten rehabilitation.
(13) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
(14) Light was found to exert a greater influence than heat, and yeasts growth hastened colour degradation.
(15) The use of synthetic cuffs to simplify and hasten microvascular anastomoses is offered as an alternative to conventional methods.
(16) But there are steps we can take to save lives, hasten an end to the war, reduce the risks to the region and protect American interests as well.
(17) In the end, it was probably Thatcher's dependence on him which hastened Whitelaw's death.
(18) We would hasten to add that the other initiatives announced last week in the 2016-17 plan will remain.
(19) Finally increasing the general awareness of this problem should hasten the development of improved management strategies.
(20) In anaerobic cells, the I-D decline is hastened almost equally by absorption of either 705 or 650 nm background light.
Hustled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Hustle
Example Sentences:
(1) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
(2) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
(3) "You regroup and start hustling again, but it's crucial that you believe in your own creative processes.
(4) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
(5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
(6) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
(7) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
(8) Every mainland resident aspires to move to the island someday, which is why the Lagos Hustle will never stop.
(9) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
(10) Spike Jonze's Her joined American Hustle as one of the unexpected early frontrunners in the awards race after being named as best film of the year by the National Board of Review.
(11) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was hustled away from Parliament Hill and was safe, a spokesperson confirmed .
(12) One cannot help but admire the bovine hustle with which the Labour party and most of the commentariat converged on the story that it had lost the election not because it had chosen the wrong Miliband, but because it had failed to address voters’ “aspirations”.
(13) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
(14) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
(15) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(16) Both American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave are expected to be among the nominees for the 2014 Oscars, which will be announced on 16 January.
(17) Similarly Henville, who has served prison time for drug offences, is shown trying to go straight (“I didn’t rob anyone or hustle anyone – I was just trying to be a young entrepreneur at the time,” he says of days as a dealer).
(18) Tony Jordan, who had a hand in several of the pivotal television dramas of the past 20 years, from EastEnders to Hustle and Life on Mars, is reminiscing over his formative years as a market-stall holder partly because he has just launched a competition to find new writers for his recently formed production company Red Planet.
(19) To get to the beach, they were hustled through a small gap in a fence that lined the sand.
(20) The Nativity has been a long-standing project for Jordan (Life on Mars, Hustle, EastEnders), who began researching it five years ago .