We found 396 examples of how to use speed in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 396.
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| 1. | "'Tom lives only an hour away,' that's what Mary said at school today. What does that mean, Mum?" Mum thought for a moment. "Well," she began, as she usually began her answers, "a distance can be expressed as a unit of time when you've established a constant rate of speed – it might be the average speed of a pedestrian, a bicycle or a car. But without knowing the context, the most natural choice would be the speed of light in vacuum, according to which–" Mum did the mental arithmetic, Johnny meanwhile scribbling everything down on a notepad, "Tom lives about a billion kilometres away, possibly on an asteroid somewhere near Saturn." | |
| 2. | Everybody was obeying the speed limit, so I knew there was likely a speed trap ahead. | |
| 3. | The driver of an oncoming car flashed his lights at Tom as a warning that there was a mobile speed camera up ahead. Tom, who had been speeding, immediately slowed down and passed the camera at just under the speed limit. | |
| 4. | A speed bump is used for a forced speed reduction of the car. | |
| 5. | The download speed is twice as fast as the upload speed on this network. | |
| 6. | Your car's speedometer tells you the car's instantaneous speed, not its average speed. | |
| 7. | Don't get me started on average speed cameras. Why don't they shell out some cash for really good speed cameras? | |
| 8. | More haste, less speed. | |
| 9. | We should observe the speed limit. | |
| 10. | Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented. | |
| 11. | The driver increased his speed. | |
| 12. | The driver maintained a high speed. | |
| 13. | A car passed by at top speed. | |
| 14. | You should drive at a safe speed. | |
| 15. | The rocket travels at a tremendous speed. | |
| 16. | On hearing the whistle, they started at full speed. | |
| 17. | Rigid wheels give sufficient stability to a low-speed vehicle steered by outside forces. | |
| 18. | The police car was driving at fairly high speed. | |
| 19. | The bus picked up the speed gradually. | |
| 20. | The train gained speed. | |
| 21. | The airplane flies at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour. | |
| 22. | The man drove his car at a uniform speed. | |
| 23. | Away went the car at full speed. | |
| 24. | The car is exceeding the speed limit. | |
| 25. | The express train picked up speed gradually. |