For her sake, he tried to hurry through parts of the story but she wouldn't let him.

Yet he had nothing to gain by trying to hurry her.

Did you ever try to hurry a project through a bureaucracy?

I walked off to the tables, trying not to hurry.

The going was slow; they did not try to hurry.

She walked away, trying not to hurry, and went into the dining room.

"They want to know if you try to hurry through it, or stop."

Fuller tried to hurry past, but her question stopped him.

He tried to hurry over the ground, but something seemed to hold him back.

She tried not to hurry, telling herself that, for the moment at least, time was on her side.