How to Use a race against time in a Sentence

a race against time

idiomatic phrase

• The need to communicate turns into a race against time as the ships and their mysterious pilots trigger a global crisis that threatens to tip over into catastrophe.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
• Still, the district and the refuge are in a race against time.
  — Herald and News, oregonlive, 15 June 2021
• In Season 3, Jack is on the run and in a race against time.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• And the trio is in a race against time as the people who knew Jan start to die.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• And the trio is in a race against time as the people who knew Jan start to die.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The work is costly and the water provider is in a race against time and the next megafire.
  — AZCentral.com, 21 June 2022
• In many ways, Cantrell’s life has always been a race against time.
  — Jared Beasley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• That said, Ukraine and its Western allies are in a race against time.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
• But documenting the ship is a race against time and waves.
  — Marie Fazio New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
• So city and county officials are in a bit of a race against time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• But renters facing eviction are in a race against time.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 28 Sep. 2021
• For their part, rescuers understood their work to be a race against time.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• Rescue groups, which have been working nonstop since Monday, have fanned out across the country in a race against time to save lives.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Thuram was forced off late in the first half and it’s reported that the French striker is set to miss around 20 days, and is in a race against time to be fit for the second leg.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• What’s the Scooooop started delivering ice cream sundaes, a race against time and heat.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• Enter Email Sign Up Howey called it a race against time, and said that about 75 percent of the sites her team has tried to find already are gone due to sea level rise.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Every struggle against a pandemic is a race against time.
  — Michael T. Osterholm, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2021
• Now, as a new storm barrels toward eastern Canada, the community is in a race against time to save it.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Milicevic’s case presented a unique challenge and a race against time.
  — Melissa Karns, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
• To be clear, purchasing carbon credits alone will not quell the criticism faced by the billionaire singer amid a race against time.
  — Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• The vote has become a race against time as short-term rental regulations have become a key issue in some City Council races ahead of the May 6 election.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Werfel has been in a race against time to show how improvements to the agency can benefit taxpayers.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• The commitment is part of what has become a race against time to reduce the effects of urban pollution in an area of the country that continues to grow.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• There is, moreover, a race against time, as the sub has enough oxygen to make it until early Thursday, according to the Coast Guard—if, that is, the passengers are even still alive.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
• For homeowners, getting money before the foreclosure went through could be a race against time.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• This is an essential undertaking as the world struggles to find a path through the current pandemic, with a race against time to get vaccines to all who need them.
  — Thomas B. Cueni, STAT, 30 Nov. 2021
• For the past seven years, he’s been driving around the country with a van equipped with tools and volunteers in a race against time to rescue endangered historic buildings.
  — Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023
• Ramping up contact tracing has become a race against time as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread, Kaiser Health News reports.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2021
• Now, Giselle is in a race against time to reverse the spell and determine what happily ever after truly means to her and her family.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the use of modern technology such as drones and high-resolution modeling is beginning to be more common—and will need to be, the authors write, in a race against time.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024