How to use "speed" in a sentence

At this speed, it will take me 150 hours to free my trapped arm.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

With surprising speed, he pushed the table and chair to one side and ran to the window

He puts his foot on the accelerator, and the car starts to speed along the old road

"I suppose it's this road: the desert makes it easy to forget to watch your speed," he says, and he thinks he sees the cop look at his hand.

I knew what you wanted to say, but I should have let you say it at your own speed

Evidently, he wasn't carrying a gun, and he was impressed by the speed and ease with which his partner had been taken out of action.

Frightened, dazed by the incredible speed at which her world had begun to disintegrate, she did as he said.

In this residential neighborhood, the speed limit was twenty-five miles an hour

The windshield wipers started thumping back and forth at top speed, adding their metronomical beat to the chaos inside the Chevy.

The Explorer dropped back to a safer speed.

For one little moment it did not exist! It was only atoms travelling through space at the speed of light! A moment later, the atoms were once more gathered together in the shape of an ashtray!'

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

The horse ran forwards in terror at high speed.

The captain swore at the top of his voice at his own delay, and the ship increased speed.

He got to his feet and saw to the right, less than a hundred metres away, the warship cutting through the water at full speed, throwing enormous waves out on either side.

The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply sailed at full speed towards them