Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: apace
IPA transcription: [əp'eɪs]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace
    Meaning: with rapid movements; "he works quickly"
Usage examples
  • The light comes on apace.
  • 'Better begin now, then; bad habits, like weeds, grow apace!'
  • Thus benignly fostered by the good St. Nicholas, the infant city thrived apace.
  • Now a great hurry-burly began in the house, and preparations for the wedding went on apace.
  • The hut is progressing apace, and all agree that it should be the most perfectly comfortable habitation.
  • When Moses had received this command from God, he came to the people, who waited for him, and looked upon him, for they saw already that he was coming apace from his eminence.
  • Another five hours, and the water would come tearing and driving over the country, applying its furious waves and currents to the work of denudation, which would proceed apace.