(superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both situations, speedy intervention is essential to prevent irreversible damage.
(2) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(3) These patients require speedy diagnosis before total paralysis is established.
(4) Speedy processing and prompt telephone calls afforded opportunities to replace these with better specimens, but only 29% of rejected specimens were resubmitted.
(5) Equally, you can still get a perfectly posh bag for around £600 – Louis Vuitton’s Speedy bags, for a start, are still well under a grand.
(6) Arsenal are clinging to the hope that, like Olivier Giroud, who returned as a goal-scoring substitute in the 2-1 loss to United weeks ahead of schedule after fracturing his tibia in late August, Wilshere could yet surprise people and make a speedy recovery.
(7) A wire with a precisely engineered thread and threaded nylon nut are described as an accurate, speedy and simple alternative to the arch bars and wires method of immobilizing the jaw while greatly reducing the chances of trauma to the surgeon.
(8) The dissection is simple, speedy and straight foreward.
(9) "Our thoughts are with Aaron at this time and everyone at the club wishes him all the best in making as speedy a return to action as possible."
(10) On-site use of the microcomputer contributed to increased monitoring efficiency and trialist motivation, resulting in rapid recruitment of patients, collection of high quality data and speedy analysis at the end of the study.
(11) A British exit from the EU will lead straight into a model like Norway, as Britain seems still to want speedy access to the 500–plus million EU consumer market.
(12) I wish you a speedy recovery my friend.” Peter Lovenkrands (@lovenkrands11) Can't believe the news about my good friend @elgalgojonas testicle cancer😔 i wish you a speedy recovery my Friend🙏👊😘 #SpiderMan #Nufc September 16, 2014 The former Newcastle goalkeeper Steve Harper added: “Buena suerte a mi amigo Jonas with his battle with testicular cancer.
(13) The result – and Mitchell’s speedy response – brings to an end a two-year campaign to clear his name which was launched when friends invoked the memory of Margaret Thatcher to persuade him to come out fighting after he lost his job as chief whip.
(14) The government, however, pushed that aside and said it would enact the changes itself in the "wash-up" process in the House of Commons in order to ensure that the bill continued its speedy passage through parliament.
(15) While the defender has had a dismaying run of layoffs over the past three seasons there is optimism at the club that Kompany can make a speedy recovery as the current problem is not a recurrence of any previous one.
(16) Hundreds more, including Morsi, have been sentenced to death after speedy trials, which the UN denounced as “unprecedented in recent history”.
(17) To appreciate what is at stake we have to track back to amendments to the NSW Evidence Act in 1995, following the collapse of the cases against Jay Thomas Hart on charges of murdering Clinton Speedy-Dutroux and Evelyn Greenup.
(18) I am sending condolences to the families of those murdered and wishes of a speedy recovery to the wounded,” the Israeli leader said.
(19) Following embolization, the patient made a speedy recovery from the sepsis and no recurrent bleeding was noted.
(20) You panic but it's no good "getting on the bell" – unless you're dying – and, even then, don't hope for a speedy response.
Swift
Definition:
(v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
(v. i.) Of short continuance; passing away quickly.
(adv.) Swiftly.
(n.) The current of a stream.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
(n.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
(n.) The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
(n.) A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
(2) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
(3) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(4) Photograph: Owen Gibson Yet for those who challenge authority through their words or actions, retribution is swift.
(5) It was becoming entertaining too, a match that was swift and direct, the ball moved rapidly and with a sense of urgency.
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(7) The cash would have fed swiftly into demand, with negligible risk of inflation.
(8) Since toxoplasmosis is a potentially treatable opportunistic infection, diagnosis allows the swift institution of anti-Toxoplasma therapy.
(9) The benefit derived from the application of recemic epinephrine with intermittent positive pressure was confirmed 15 and 30 minutes later by means of a double blind study; the improvement was swift and spectacular, but temporary; therefore, such treatment must be given only in hospitals, since relapses may show up two to four hours later, making in dangerous to send the patients home or to apply to ambulatory cases.
(10) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(11) The EU interior ministers issued a joint statement in which they agreed to renew pressure on the major internet companies to step up their efforts to swiftly report and remove material that aims to incite hatred and terror.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(14) And imagine he then found that, far from acting swiftly to capture, arrest and charge him, the Metropolitan police force (who knew something about his activities) initially stood idly by as his list of victims grew and grew.
(15) Even as an 18-year-old at the [NSW] Swifts , I was more worried about it than my team-mates.
(16) Labour respects the result of the referendum and the will of the British people and will not frustrate the process for invoking article 50,” said Jeremy Corbyn in a statement that swiftly closed off any meaningful likelihood of enough MPs opposing the government’s imminent Brexit bill.
(17) "If required, we will act swiftly with further monetary policy easing.
(18) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
(19) They have been through things every bit as stressful and tough as this.” Those on both sides hoping for a swift resolution to the investigation may be disappointed: special counsel investigations can take years before coming to any conclusions.
(20) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.