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How to use celerity in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word celerity? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
She knows how to pack the energy inside her lines and irregular stanzas with startling celerity and agility.
Nowhere does fear do its work with more celerity and less constraint than in the financial markets, which often flee even from their own shadows.
The forage and baggage came into camp promptly, and this contributed greatly to celerity of movement and comfort for man and beast.
His enormous vocabulary could only be derived from a mind of great celerity, responding to the literary as well as the spoken language.
When it was down, it did not keep water in the basin, and when it was up, it did not let water out of the basin with any celerity.
Also important are factors such as age, nature of the offence, and the certainty, severity and celerity of sanctions.
Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case.
The celerity of the wave, C, is also very large and would cause very rapid rise of the downstream water levels.
The overwhelming celerity with which the everyday perpetually transforms its packaging, the excessively rapid turnover of signs has condensed our historical perspective.
If there is one outstanding fact about the creation of the new UN Human Rights Council, it is the exceptional celerity with which the international community has acted.
According to the Code of Civil Procedure, the bailiff has the duty to insist by all the means permitted by law, for the achievement in full and with celerity of the obligation provided in the writ of enforcement.
Discarding all armour except for the helmet and cuirass, the Swiss were able to march 30 miles a day and attack with a celerity and discipline that were disconcerting to their adversaries.
Without the contribution of the statement of facts, it would be often very much more difficult for them to regulate such situations with accuracy and celerity.
The second progress report on the activities of the Monitoring Committee between April 1998-April 1999 is based on a series of tables, appearing in appendix, for reasons of clarity and celerity.
In the face of declining export volumes and falling commodity prices, Latin American and Caribbean entrepreneurs must act with celerity to save profitability.
However, the Commission agrees that the remediation work should be carried out as expeditiously as possible and directs CNSC staff to ensure that it proceeds with celerity.
Will the same celerity characterise the war?
The Assembly urges the Serbian authorities to react at all times with great celerity and firmness against the perpetrators of interethnic violence in all its forms.
If their perceived severity results in fewer guilty pleas and more cases proceeding to trial, the certainty and celerity of their imposition may be diminished relative to sentences imposed previously.
So that ten men, by the aid of this machinery, can accomplish with uniformity, celerity and ease, what formerly required the uncertain labour of one hundred and ten.
Examples from Classical Literature
The celerity with which they pressed on their way, astonished the Europeans.
You will be pleased with the celerity, if not with the perfection, of our work.
The celerity of absorption exceeds that of transpiration six times, in the most rapid cases.
It was all done with the celerity and ease with which things are accomplished in dreams.
Dufour leaped to his feet with the nimbleness and dangerous celerity of a tiger.
The crabs are pulled out with a celerity that astonishes their crustaceous lordships.
He was interested by the celerity, the simultaneity of his impressions, his reflections.
As they were sure to be pursued, safety depended on celerity.
His bright eyes and the celerity of his movements testified to his hunger.
Sponge and pound cake were despatched with fearful celerity.
I can only opine that my blood is not thinning with the desired celerity.
Without a word he began with equal celerity to reassume his clothes.
The pot-boy's movements resembled those of a tortoise in celerity.
I let them both go with a celerity which to this day astonishes my memory.
They marveled at the celerity with which the fort was put up.
He practised before a mirror and was satisfied with his celerity.
As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
As I stepped out, the scene changed with pantomimic celerity.
For the helmet of Pluto, which maketh the politic man go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execution.
Indeed, since an example of each system of stakes kept constantly occurring, a great deal of information could be assimilated with ease and celerity.
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