Quicken steps

[Cunning Fox]

Hello,

I'd like to know whether the following sentence sounds good to you. I found it in an article on the internet. The article wasn't written by a native speaker for sure.
Could you please suggest a more idiomatic expression if the bold part doesn't sound good?

"I quickened my steps to catch up with her".

Thank you in advance.

With kind regards,
Cunning Fox

 

[probus]

Not only does it sound natural, it is so very common it is almost a cliché.

 

[jutfrank]

Yes, it sounds good.

Please provide the source of any text you ask about. Thank you.

 

[emsr2d2]

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I'd like to know whether the following sentence sounds good to you. I found it in an article on the internet. The article wasn't written by a native speaker for sure.
Could you please suggest a more idiomatic expression if the bold part doesn't sound good?

"I quickened my steps to catch up with her".

Source: Title and author required here

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[STRIKE]Cunning Fox[/STRIKE] Unnecessary

CunningFox, please keep posts as short and to the point as possible. There is no need for any greetings or closings.

 

[Cunning Fox]

To clarify, it indeed was a random sentence from a Spansh-English dictionary. The sentence didn't sound good in Spanish (as far as my mad Spanish skills allow me to judge what sounds good and what does not), hence I didn't see a solid reason to post a random link to the page where the sentence's mentioned.

 

[Rover_KE]

So the source was a sentence from a Spanish-English dictionary — not 'an article on the internet'.

 

[probus]

For those members who may be interested there is a superb online English-Spanish-English dictionary available free from the Google Play Store. My only criticism is that it does not distinguish between Latin-American and Peninsular Spanish.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spanishdict.spanishdict

 

[tedmc]

You could say "she walked faster", but the original is more graphic.

 

[Tdol]

I'd say quickened my step.