The action is usually not the rapid-fire pace you can get in the morning, although sometimes the caddis hatch can cloud the air like a hailstorm.

His talk came at a rapid-fire pace.

He had little time to contemplate those questions over the next few minutes, though, because at that point Sen began giving him instructions at a rapid-fire pace.

And the telling of the tale sometimes seems slightly breathless, as if the narrative were driven by the same rapid-fire pace as the events it covers.

At a rapid-fire pace, banks nationwide are stepping up their drive to sell stocks and mutual funds.

They hurled questions at a rapid-fire pace, and the Starfleet engineers were hard-pressed to even acknowledge them all, let alone provide answers.

The dialogue is often delivered at a rapid-fire pace and intentionally exposes many aspects of communication that go beyond the words that are spoken.

She sounded like an auctioneer calling out bids at a rapid-fire pace.

Perhaps his speech picked up its rapid-fire pace from all the time he spends playing video games.

Although his voice cracked frequently, Mr. Keene kept up his familiar rapid-fire conversational pace.