1
: a marching cadence of 180 30-inch steps per minute
2
: payment of a worker at twice the regular wage rate
Examples of double-time in a Sentence
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Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
Pulling out onto the main road, the Elantra N's engine revved up like a classic, angry turbo-four and double-timed once the tach needle swept past 4,500 rpm.
—Peter Nelson, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
Bumped up a few spots for the invigorating double-time bridge, the best on 1989 and maybe of her career.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
Few artists, like Megan, can rip into double-time rhymes without missing a beat, all while moving all over the stage, dancing.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
Last year, our nation’s longshore workers double-timed it and deliveries across the nation were even quicker than before the pandemic.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
The Venezuelan producer rinses an athletic drum loop into a muscular double-time rhythm, chopping up a vocal sample into a heart-pumping cross-training session.
—Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
But the Ally paid for its double-time screen with disappointing battery life.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
The remix finds Emerson ramping up the original groove to a swift, double-time pace as a repeating synth mantra bubbles up around Dreijer’s vocals.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
The song’s not even asking for that..double time flows…talking about all this stuff that’s not even regarding the song.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
After a hot and muggy Labor Day drew thousands of beachgoers and boaters to Lake Michigan Monday, a safety expert is calling the holiday one of the deadliest for the lakefront in recent history as emergency responders worked double time in rescue and recovery missions over a 24-hour period.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
The terms Pact offered last week on productions costing up to £7 million ($8.3 million) an hour were shorter working days, additional pay for prep and wrap, payment for working unsocial hours, a higher overtime fee cap and paying days worked over public holidays at double time.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2022
Her movements are exaggerated now, double time.
—Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
Even as the property welcomed its first official guests in February, crews of hospitality veterans from Pelton’s Greenport, New York property, American Beech were working double time alongside crews from St. Thomas to polish all of the Pink Palm’s bells and whistles.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
That’s thanks to new entertainment venues like Flight Club, Puttshack, and soon-to arrive Alamo Drafthouse — which do double time as after-work drink destinations or as birthday party spots for your kid.
—Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
Verb
Additionally, on-call employees would receive double-time pay on the seventh day of the workweek under the new agreement.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
Pulling out onto the main road, the Elantra N's engine revved up like a classic, angry turbo-four and double-timed once the tach needle swept past 4,500 rpm.
—Peter Nelson, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
Bumped up a few spots for the invigorating double-time bridge, the best on 1989 and maybe of her career.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
Few artists, like Megan, can rip into double-time rhymes without missing a beat, all while moving all over the stage, dancing.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
Last year, our nation’s longshore workers double-timed it and deliveries across the nation were even quicker than before the pandemic.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
The Venezuelan producer rinses an athletic drum loop into a muscular double-time rhythm, chopping up a vocal sample into a heart-pumping cross-training session.
—Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
But the Ally paid for its double-time screen with disappointing battery life.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
The remix finds Emerson ramping up the original groove to a swift, double-time pace as a repeating synth mantra bubbles up around Dreijer’s vocals.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
Noun
Workers who put in a 12-hour day would receive double time for each extra hour worked.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
The song’s not even asking for that..double time flows…talking about all this stuff that’s not even regarding the song.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
After a hot and muggy Labor Day drew thousands of beachgoers and boaters to Lake Michigan Monday, a safety expert is calling the holiday one of the deadliest for the lakefront in recent history as emergency responders worked double time in rescue and recovery missions over a 24-hour period.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
The terms Pact offered last week on productions costing up to £7 million ($8.3 million) an hour were shorter working days, additional pay for prep and wrap, payment for working unsocial hours, a higher overtime fee cap and paying days worked over public holidays at double time.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2022
Her movements are exaggerated now, double time.
—Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
Even as the property welcomed its first official guests in February, crews of hospitality veterans from Pelton’s Greenport, New York property, American Beech were working double time alongside crews from St. Thomas to polish all of the Pink Palm’s bells and whistles.
—Joe Sills, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
That’s thanks to new entertainment venues like Flight Club, Puttshack, and soon-to arrive Alamo Drafthouse — which do double time as after-work drink destinations or as birthday party spots for your kid.
—Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
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