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Sprint   /sprɪnt/   Listen
noun
Sprint  n.  The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.
Sprint race, a foot race at the highest running speed; usually limited to distances under a quarter of a mile.



verb
Sprint  v. i.  (past & past part. sprinted; pres. part. sprinting)  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. "A runner (in a quarter-mile race) should be able to sprint the whole way."






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"Sprint" Quotes from Famous Books



... see him leaning over the balustrade and smiling at him atrociously. He took advantage of an interval and joined him. He was half inclined to ask him what he meant by it. For he was always at it. Whenever young Mercier caught Ranny doing a sprint he smiled atrociously. At Wandsworth, behind the counter, or in the little zinc-roofed dispensing-room at the back, among the horribly smelling materials of his craft, ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair

... said, laying her hand with a light, caressing gesture on the shaggy red-brown head of the Irish setter, which had kept closer guard than ever since the meeting with the strangers in the road,—"come, Paddy! we must make a sprint ...
— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin

... long time on this boat before you'll find anything dry," laughed Crazy Jane. "Get up and run. Sprint back and forth along this slippery deck, and, if you don't fall down and break your precious necks, you'll start your circulation and get warm. Run ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat • Janet Aldridge

... and his council. It was to the effect that the Inkosazana had no need to ask permission to come or to go. Her Spirit, they knew, was mighty and could wander where it willed; all the impis of the Zulus could not hold her Sprint. But—and here came the sting of this clever answer—it was necessary, until her sayings had been considered, that the body in which that Spirit abode should remain with them a while. Therefore the King and his counsellors and the whole nation of the Zulus prayed her to be satisfied with ...
— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard

... sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut; Chained all day to the same old desk, down in the same old rut; Posting the same old greasy books, catching the same old train: Oh, how will I manage to stick it all, if ...
— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service


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