Rapping could be described as speaking or singing words at a fast speed over music with quick beats.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

But blood drops with long tails can tell a great deal about the direction, speed and angle of the blood's starting point.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Tornadoes usually travel in a northeasterly direction with a speed of thirty-two to sixty-four kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The slower speed is combined with an extra effort to make the writing easy to understand.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

And Akio Toyoda promised a new level of openness and speed in dealing with safety issues.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Earlier in the week, the head of the World Bank said international support can speed progress -- "but only if coupled with real reform."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

The birds spread out from one another to do this, and they spread with increasing speed.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Bohlin's work with planes showed him what could happen in a crash at high speed.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

They were powerful creatures that ran with great speed.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

"Keeping everybody up to speed with what we were doing, what we were learning, what the key issues were.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

With those results,he tied and then passed long track speed skater Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympics medals won by an American.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The revelation triggered a wave of condemnation on the House floor, with Republicans j oining Democrats in calls to speed passage of new sanctions legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

A high-speed French train can reach 574 kilometers per hour, but the record was set a Japanese train with a speed of 581 kilometers per hour.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

But I was eight years old and I was terrified. I think it took me like two months to go off it with the full speed and actually go anywhere,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

"The key thing is an economically viable coalition more than one that is reached with great speed - something that is going to reassure the markets that the economic problems are really top of the agenda."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

The picturesque town was a popular tourist destination, but the majority of its buildings were crushed by the onslaught of an unprecedented firestorm that advanced with such speed and ferocity and gave many residents little chance of survival.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21