9 sentences with “rush”

We crowd into the subway during rush hours.

Life is better if you enjoy it slowly, without rush or hurry.

It was pouring with rain and, to complicate matters, it was rush hour traffic, which was therefore very slow.

-How could a young woman, in her five senses, rush down this slope without causing the slightest noise? -asked the prosecutor.

They realized that the slightest pressure would cause the slab to rush down with the force of a locomotive without brakes, causing the entire cavern to collapse.

There was a rush for seals in Dusky Sound and the West Coast in the early nineteenth century, and the seals were hunted to the verge of extinction by 1830. Sealing in New Zealand was finally outlawed in 1926.

Many Americans were affected by the "land rush". Farmers scrambled to expand their acreage, and those living in areas where vacant land was scarce sought farms in the West. However, they needed money to buy this land.

But this new institution only exacerbated the problem by making risky loans, opening branches in the South and West, where the land rush was greatest, and issuing a steady stream of Bank of the United States notes, a move that increased inflation and speculation.

When the news reached San Francisco, most of its residents left the city and headed for the American River. By the end of the year, thousands of California residents had headed north to the gold fields with visions of wealth dancing in their heads, and in 1849 they were followed by thousands of people from all over the world. The gold rush had begun.