Apace

/əˈpeɪs/ · adverb

Meaning

Quickly, rapidly, with speed..

Example Sentences

Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.

(To one, it is ten years of years. ... Yet now, and in this place, Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair Fell all about my face. ... Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves. The whole year sets apace.)

Gallop apace, you fiery footed ſteedes, / Towards Phœbus lodging, ſuch a Wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the weſt, / And bring in Cloudie night immediately.

Ow faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre / Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in / Another Moon[…]

The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.

Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.

On the three major railway systems of Ireland, changeover to diesel traction has continued apace during the past year.

Despite efforts to prevent it, officials say, the radicalisation of young Muslims living in Europe proceeds apace.

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