haste applies to personal action and implies urgency and precipitancy and often rashness.
marry in haste
hurry often has a strong suggestion of agitated bustle or confusion.
in the hurry of departure she forgot her toothbrush
speed suggests swift efficiency in movement or action.
exercises to increase your reading speed
expedition and dispatch both imply speed and efficiency in handling affairs but expedition stresses ease or efficiency of performance and dispatch stresses promptness in concluding matters.
the case came to trial with expedition
paid bills with dispatch
Example Sentences
a scientific expedition to Antarctica an avid mountain climber, always on an expedition to some far-off corner of the world
Recent Examples on the WebHaley, 66, who was involved in logistics and managing problems on the expedition, exited the cave to find another caver and an assistant fire chief from the local fire department. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022 Kamoya’s most significant find came in 1984, on an expedition around Kenya’s Lake Turkana with Richard Leakey and Alan Walker, an anthropologist from Penn State.BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022 Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist and writer who was also on this expedition, said something that gave me pause.New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Evans hadn't been able to truly inspect each item since they were recovered in the early 1990s and on another expedition in 2014. Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 Shark conservationist Kinga Philipps and scientist Tristan Guttridge embark on an expedition through the remote islands of Tahiti to investigate local legends and mysteries about massive tiger sharks.al, 23 July 2022 Champollion was 7 years old when this general with Pharaonic ambitions embarked on the expedition. Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 The Egyptian men and children hired to work on the expedition, however, received almost no recognition. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022 On the expedition, he and she are supposed to chart resource-rich new lands for colonial conquest. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 6 May 2022 See More