That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. From LearnThat.org. [Josiah Gilbert Holland]
Adjective : rapid growth. ,a rapid worker. ,rapid motion. From Dictionary.com.
Everytime I played a disc in my laptop, you could slightly hear the label rapidly scraping against something in my DVD drive. From Wordnik.com. [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference
In fact, the new term rapidly acquires all the associations of the old. From Wordnik.com. [Tongue Tied 3] Reference
It set the whole country to choosing up sides, and its title rapidly became a generic name. From Wordnik.com. [Parsing The Politics Of 'Main Street'] Reference
He pulled it in rapidly, hand under hand, and landed. From Wordnik.com. [YAH! YAH! YAH!] Reference
Then train rapidly down the other side ... and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: June 26, 2005 - July 2, 2005 Archives] Reference
Then train rapidly down the opposite side to 180 degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: June 26, 2005 - July 2, 2005 Archives] Reference
Whimple looked over the titles rapidly, then more closely. From Wordnik.com. [William Adolphus Turnpike] Reference
Not counting the typhoon approaching rapidly from the south. From Wordnik.com. [2008 June « Hyperpat’s HyperDay] Reference
Palin rapidly responded: I could not have said it better myself. From Wordnik.com. [US midterms: Nancy Pelosi faces a struggle in her Democratic California heartland] Reference
Flat-hauled on the crisp breeze, the Arangi closed in rapidly with the land. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
You are transported rapidly from the train or the car to the inside of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
You can wash and trim them, and just give them a minute in rapidly boiling water. From Wordnik.com. [Bitter Greens with Beans] Reference
On the increased caloric intake, the patients gain rapidly in strength and weight. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: We've heard the phrase rapidly deteriorating weather (INAUDIBLE). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2004] Reference
Banks are not set up to do this well, resulting in rapidly decreasing value of the asset. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Mortgage Modifications Hitting Roadblocks, As Cram-Down Bill Languishes In Senate] Reference
The names of subscribers flowed in rapidly, till they amounted to more than eleven hundred!. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've heard the phrase rapidly deteriorating weather a lot this afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2004] Reference
As mutations accumulate in rapidly dividing cells new immunological specificities may develop. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1984 - Press Release] Reference
The internet in China is diverging rapidly from the state that the rest of the world enjoys it. From Wordnik.com. [China’s New Internet Plan | Impact Lab] Reference
He deteriorates rapidly from a domineering and vigorous soldier into a feeble and fearful old man. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillies Orra and The Dream] Reference
Betsy paused here, meditated a moment, and went in rapidly so that her courage would not evaporate. From Wordnik.com. [Understood Betsy] Reference
As the force of gravity intensifies, blood drains rapidly from the brain unless the pilot fights back. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Ace] Reference
Not controlling them rapidly is not respecting the lives of the naturally occurring species in the system. From Wordnik.com. [Aerial Bowfishing for Bighead Carp in Missouri's Lamine River] Reference
The word rapidly became popular, and attempts were made to read into it far more than its inventor implied. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
In proportion as hostility to England was more openly declared, funds came in rapidly from the Irish in America. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The NFL of today, with free agency churning rosters and coaching changes coming rapidly, is a different place from the one Madden knew. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - One-team wonders head Hall class] Reference
She began to count the coins rapidly, dropping them through her fingers into the scarf; and as she counted she smiled through her tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
We've had news this week that the German economy is now beginning to recover rapidly from the German downturn -- a very severe downturn. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2009] Reference
Rising rapidly from the depths of the sea and pushing the waves aside with force, the old shark put his head above the waves and repeated. From Wordnik.com. [The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son] Reference
But then it withers away rapidly, which is a comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Rudder Grange] Reference
He turned and wrote this phrase rapidly on a pad at his elbow, while. From Wordnik.com. [The Seeker] Reference
At this he drew his sword rapidly and came on, but I was ready to receive him. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
So here are my two suggestions as the midterms rapidly approach and moving into 2012. From Wordnik.com. [David Helfenbein: 2012: The Memo for Winning for Both Parties (for now)] Reference
If he thinks rapidly, that is no fault; he thinks thoroughly, and that is the essential. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt] Reference
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