How to Use quick time in a Sentence

quick time

noun

• Coleman overcomes his start to win the 60 with a quick time.
  — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2020
• Kristoffersen rose from 10th-fastest in the morning with the quickest time in the second run.
  — Graham Dunbar, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• The world record holder won a silver medal with a lightning-quick time of 12.52 seconds.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The lightning-quick time qualified her for the Olympic trials and still stands as the fourth-fastest 5,000m time in the world, per World Athletics.
  — Janine Puhak, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
• First set lost Vondrousova hadn't lost a set prior to the final, so Barty winning the opener and in quick time, must have been a blow.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 8 June 2019
• That was until Martinez rolled up and smashed yet another record in double quick time.
  — SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Vanguard is a punishing game with its fast pace and quick time-to-kill, and the competition is as close as its ever been in the esport.
  — Dallas News, 28 May 2022
• The idea is simple, down 12 ounces of Oberweis chocolate milk before each lap around the Hinsdale Central track, and try to finish with the quickest time.
  — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 1 June 2018
• The quick time on the grill (usually less than 10 minutes total) won’t allow for raw sausage, hamburger, etc. to cook through.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 4 May 2020
• Obviously, the pitchers are helping me with quicker times to the plate and giving me the opportunity to get the ball out on its way.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The game was littered with quick time events, and its denouement included fighting a zombie Tyrannosaurus rex with a Jeep.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Amusan seemed as surprised as anyone by the scorching time. Harrison, running in the same semifinal as Amusan, crossed the line second in a quick time of her own, 12.27.
  — oregonlive, 24 July 2022
• Backers say the site could receive its first shipment of spent fuel in 2023 — a quick time frame by regulatory standards.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2019
• And unfortunately, many quick time checks turn into text-checks, voicemail checks, email checks and quick Facetime sessions with the grandkids.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
• The demand for demining experts is so high that crash courses have been launched, teaching the appropriate skills in double-quick time.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
• Although the winter weather can be dicey in early February, a Pearland triathlon promises perfect conditions and quick times come race day.
  — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2020
• The remake also seems to be taking a more modern stance on quick time events, the lightly interactive cutscenes during which players have to press specific buttons when a prompt flashes on-screen.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
• As Erica York of the Tax Foundation think tank notes, the quickest time frame in which the federal government has previously been able to issue stimulus checks has been six weeks.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
• Cooler engine, denser air, more horsepower, quicker times.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
• Players would simply point plastic guns at their TV set to rack up points or wait for the prompt to perform button presses that had little to do with what happened on the screen — early precursors to contemporary quick time events.
  — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• Add in the relative quick time to market, the staying power possibilities and ability to both verify the advantages in a lab and have consumers feel the benefits and Khan believed footwear was where to start.
  — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• Such projects are guaranteed approval within 180 days, a lightning-quick time frame in most of the Bay Area, especially Berkeley, where housing developments can take as long as four years to get permitted.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
• Type 1 develops in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood, when the body’s own immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, wiping them out in a relatively quick time.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2010
• The authorities, tired of recurring bail-outs, are forcing them to recognise which loans are unlikely to be repaid, and to initiate insolvency proceedings in double-quick time.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Additionally, this project was commissioned and built in just three months, an unexpectedly quick time frame that can enable a rapid response to power problems, relative to the construction of peaker plants, which can take years.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
• The results are impressive, with the Model 3 returning quicker times in every acceleration test.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 6 Jan. 2020
• The coronavirus catastrophe has required many individuals, companies and organisations, who never had to do business online before, to shift to the new normal in double-quick time.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• Revision quiets skeptics The legislation grew out of an earlier effort, SB 1452, which proposed even quicker time frames for severing parental rights and prescribed stricter limits on state tolerance for substance-abusing parents.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Republic | azcentral.com, 5 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024