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[ fast-moo-ving, fahst- ] / ˈfæstˈmu vɪŋ, ˈfɑst- /
adjectivemoving or capable of moving at high speed. (of a novel, play, or the like) having sustained action and interest with events following one another rapidly; lively in plot. Origin of fast-movingFirst recorded in 1930–35 Words nearby fast-movingfastie, fastigiate, fastigium, fast lane, fast motion, fast-moving, fastness, fast neutron, Fast of Gedaliah, fast one, fast reactor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fast-movingGetting close to a bunch of giant, angry, fast-moving wild animals does. Chicago’s Running of the Bulls|Hampton Stevens|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST The fast-moving, competitive capital of the United States forced him out of his more reserved shell, he says. ‘No Woman, No Drive’: Behind the Viral Video|Sophia Jones|October 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST In the last scene, he uses his calculus of flow to rescue an Iraqi boy from a fast-moving, wind-buffeted river. Joseph McElroy’s ‘Cannonball’ Is the Meta Iraq War Novel|Tom LeClair|July 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST The baby would have found herself in a fast-moving and quickly thickening forest of huge legs. How to Capture an Elephant: Excerpt From Michael Daly’s ‘Topsy’|Michael Daly|July 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This was an egregious error, a product of a fast-moving media culture in which getting it first often supersedes getting it right. Media Misfire: Accusing the Wrong Man in Connecticut Shooting|Howard Kurtz|December 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST To have leaped from the fast-moving train among the rocks which lined the right of way, would have been fatal. If he is right it is inevitable that time, fast-moving or slow-moving, must influence the conception of events. Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross Then, abruptly, the fast-moving cavalcade came to the edge of the city and plunged into it. The Hate Disease|William Fitzgerald Jenkins The fast-moving train is stopped by an air brake, and the locomotive bell is rung by touching an air cylinder. Inventions in the Century|William Henry Doolittle Within three weeks of the surrender Prince Maurice with a body of fast-moving cavalry overran that county almost unopposed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4|Various
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