(a.) Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.
(a.) Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hurry
Example Sentences:
(1) And while teaching unions wanted him to slow down, they totally missed the point – all the hurry and the change and the disruption were intentional.
(2) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
(3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
(4) Cardiff City waited 51 years for this day but it turned out to be one they would rather forget in a hurry.
(5) Home is his other haven, but so hurried was his departure, he did not have time to bring anything with him.
(6) Inflation rises, but we should still fear deflation Read more Sharply lower oil prices are set to keep a lid on inflation, leaving the UK central bank in no hurry to raise rates above 0.5% , where they have remained for nearly seven years.
(7) The French said they were in no hurry to reach a deal, indicating that the summit could collapse in failure over the next 48 hours.
(8) It reminded me to look at the sky, absorb the air, and listen to the wind that bristles as it hurries by.
(9) But, in a hurry as ever, his eye had wandered beyond the Arno to an altogether different place: the headquarters of the PD.
(10) And still an estimated 42,000-50,000 refugees across Germany are being housed in the tent cities that were erected hurriedly over the summer and autumn.
(11) Why would any loving parent be in a hurry to rob their child of such potent relief?
(12) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
(13) The brief said: "It is unsatisfactory that personal and constitutional questions of such high importance should still depend on the operation of an 18th-century statute which was admittedly passed hurriedly, and in the face of considerable opposition, to deal with an ad hoc situation created largely by the unsatisfactory conduct of King George III's brothers."
(14) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
(15) The US Congress has made attempts, passing several stimulus measures, but almost all were hurried and ill thought-out.
(16) He stumps at the dump on Sundays, Woodmansee explained – not on Saturdays or Wednesdays – because “they have a cup of coffee in their car, they’re not in a hurry and willing to talk about Trump”.
(17) "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."
(18) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(19) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
(20) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.
Leisurely
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
(adv.) In a leisurely manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reliability and concurrent validity of a simple questionnaire to assess leisure time physical activity has been investigated on 306 self-selected healthy adults of both sexes (163 M; 143 F).
(2) Symptom-limited maximal data were also collected and these are reported in relation to the energy requirements of some common leisure, occupational and domestic activities.
(3) In the 1970s a continuous increase of fat consumption and of cigarette consumption has been balanced by an increase of prevalence of controlled hypertensives, by an increase of leisure physical activity, by an increasing availability of coronary care units and consumption of beta-blockers.
(4) Also playing their part are increased mobility of populations, particularly moves from rural to urban areas, increased affluence, increased alcohol comsumption and leisure time together with greater personal freedom.
(5) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(6) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
(7) Howard Pridding, chief executive of the British Marine Federation, said: “The UK leisure marine industry has continued to grow and create new jobs, in spite of the challenging environment for exports caused by the weakness of the eurozone.
(8) Men in the lower employment grades were shorter, heavier for their height, had higher blood pressure, higher plasma glucose, smoked more, and reported less leisure-time physical activity than men in the higher grades.
(9) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(10) Such contracts are widely used by retailers, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
(11) These factors explain around four-fifths of the overall pay gap between zero-hours workers and other employees.” Zero-hours contracts are widely used by retailers such as Sports Direct and JD Sports, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
(12) Certain behavioral risk factors were more dominant among the seamen than among the control group (smoking level, alcohol consumption and lack of leisure-time physical activity).
(13) A subgroup of 63 persons who have access to and do avail themselves of computers on a regular basis (as leisure-time activity) also answered the "Computer-Motive-Questionnaire".
(14) The results of the study disclosed the positive effects of physical activity at leisure on blood pressure status and this was independent on weight and age.
(15) Industries such as retail, leisure and travel are also expected to experience a slowdown in their recovery.
(16) Northern Ireland's minister of culture, arts and leisure, Nelson McCausland, supports a pilot taking place in the province and has suggested it could bring in £3m a year.
(17) The weekly titles will all be receiving new layout and design with a central section of common pages for the weeklies, drawn from the MEN's leisure and entertainment content.
(18) Properties in Garford Road, Rhyl, have been flooded and residents evacuated to Rhyl Leisure Centre where a rest centre has been set up by Denbighshire County Council.
(19) Quantitatively, the most important risk factors for total mortality were low physical activity during leisure time, tobacco smoking and elevated blood pressure.
(20) Physical strain may also have prophylactic effects, as physical leisure activity and muscular strength are negatively associated with the risk of low back pain.