celerity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with celerity, each labelled with its topic.

• She brought the ball up with such celerity that the defense was still crossing midcourt when she scored.

  Basketball

• The trauma team moved with celerity, and the patient was in the scanner four minutes after the ambulance arrived.

  Medicine

• The new index answers queries with a celerity the old system never managed, returning results before the spinner appears.

  Technology

• The speedrunner moved through the first level with such celerity that the loading screen could barely keep up.

  Gaming

• Automated traders react with a celerity no human can match, moving prices within a millisecond of a headline.

  Finance

• The messengers of the old empire rode with celerity, covering the distance from coast to capital in six days.

  History

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More Literary words

• torpid
• otiose
• probity
• acephalous
• perspicacious
• duplicitous
• salubrious
• explicate
• vociferous
• calumniate
• ineluctable
• irresolute