How to Use rapidity in a Sentence

rapidity

noun
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  • But the rapidity of Omicron spread had been known for a month.
    — Joel Zinberg, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022
  • There was a rapidity and movement to Ohio State's offense that had been absent over the last two games.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • While the rapidity of gains is sure to remind some of the dot-com days, a few big differences exist.
    — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Stephen Paddock, the shooter, used a device called a bump stock to increase the rapidity of his shots.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The Swan Queen and Prince Siegfried begin with dreamlike rapidity; the music’s sped up.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 3 June 2018
  • What's remarkable is the rapidity of Sanders' rise to dominance in the state.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • That image makes his seeming surprise at the rapidity of the collapse of the resistance to the Taliban all the more shocking.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
  • It’s a puzzle Wang hopes A.I. can solve, with rapidity.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 14 June 2022
  • On the one hand, the rapidity with which the Omicron variant has spread has caught facilities off guard.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • For them, the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The burst of praise for Truss and the rapidity with which her program collapsed is something new, however.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The rapidity of the shake-up is noteworthy since it’s taking place inside museums, a field with its gaze fixed on the past.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • But because of the rapidity of climate change due to carbon emissions, trees may not be able to move fast enough on their own to save themselves.
    — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Mass shootings – loosely defined as the murder of at least four people – occur with enough rapidity that one tends to erase the next.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The rapidity of Smartless’s rise is, frankly, shocking.
    — Vulture, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Given the rapidity with which fire spreads, taking time to first call 911 seems counter intuitive.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The exact nature of that something was tough to gauge given the rapidity with which things unraveled.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • AR-15s fire the same sorts of bullets as small-game hunting rifles, and do so with the same velocity and rapidity (one bullet per pull of the trigger).
    — John R. Lott Jr., National Review, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Howling its song through the Akrapovič titanium exhaust, the engine presents a rapidity that is at odds with the large, tall surrounds of the chassis and bodywork.
    — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The blows struck by Ma Qiang's command fell with remarkable rapidity.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 16 Feb. 2021
  • In its realism and rapidity, Russia’s response to its crisis was the best of any emerging market this decade, says Mr Kouzmin.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The power of poetic style, which is largely the same thing as rapidity, is pleasing for these effects alone and consists in nothing else.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • At a robust 87 years of age, Dolores Huerta speaks with the rapidity, clarity and conviction of her younger self.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 26 Aug. 2017
  • There is much—very much—ado about Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande: the rapidity of their engagement!
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Just such a stockpiled flaw was behind the rapaciousness and rapidity with which the WannaCry ransomware spread.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 May 2017
  • The rapidity of the collapse is going to be terrifying.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
  • This project had drawn his attention to Pine Island Bay as a coastal area where the outer edge of glaciers might calve or break apart into icebergs with especial rapidity.
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Still, considering the overall length of the crisis and the time spent getting a handle on the problems, the major decisions on how to get the crew home were made with almost stunning rapidity.
    — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Although Tutankhamun reigned for only a few years after his father Akhenaten’s death, the rapidity with which the old gods, and the old style, had been restored is evident in the art of his famous tomb.
    — National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • In America, the definition of life itself is on the line in the wake of Roe's reversal, and the theft of lives by gun violence is occurring with a rapidity that wrenches the heart and churns the stomach.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022

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