How to Use time stamp in a Sentence

time stamp

noun
  • My first on-the-books job was in the (time stamp) mall.
    Lucy Corin, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Slide a single text to the left to reveal the time stamp on all of the texts on the page.
    Emily Price, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2014
  • The time stamp may have given the parents a clue, though.
    Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • The time stamp on the video then jumps to five minutes later.
    New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • The time stamp for the video was about 6 p.m., just before police were called by the child.
    Phyllis Cha, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The time stamp on the video shows her leaving just before 5:30 a.m.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 7 May 2022
  • The time stamp on the video was 3:45 p.m. - almost two hours into her shift.
    Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The final post appeared around the time of the van attack, based on a time stamp on the archived copy.
    Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The exchanges began in March, according to the time stamp on the texts.
    CNN, 8 June 2019
  • Viewers can see the time stamps of where Mitchell is in the delivery process.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The time stamp on her birth certificate would be 3:42 a.m.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
  • Make notes of who said what and when, including date and time stamps.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The monologue has no time stamp, no constraints of pace or length imposed by the rest of the novel.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Container of cooked onion and green chilies stored with no date/time stamp.
    Ebony Day, azcentral, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The brand explains how a player got her kit number with the size of her first boots and the time stamp of one of her best plays.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
  • Here are some time stamps to navigate this week Sound Off.
    Tim Griffin, ajc, 8 Nov. 2017
  • And so do their employers Look at the time stamp on reviews.
    Roy Furchgott, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Records from CenturyLink and time stamps from the data files led agents to two of the victims, one of whom was a child.
    Serena O'Sullivan, azcentral, 7 June 2019
  • According to time stamps on the pictures, the person was in the store around 7:30 Sunday evening.
    CBS News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • That would appear to marry up with the time stamp of the tweet, which was posted at 3.26pm, but where's the fun in that story, eh?
    SI.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The time stamp is the length of time into the debate each person began their statement.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • These background signals serve as time stamps on the recordings.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2018
  • YouTube’s version will pick up the audio from the same time stamp as the clip a user is replicating.
    Mia Sato, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
  • There is no time stamp on it — unlike his other works, which have a copyright with his name and date.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Also, don’t forget to check the time stamps, which will show that they were written in broad daylight.
    Lucas Gardner, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2020
  • This time stamp tells us when these minerals were buried (or trapped in an object like a pot).
    Alex Schoeman, Quartz, 29 May 2021
  • The earliest potential killing, based on the time stamps of photos the couple had, dates back to 1999.
    Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The letter, which appears to have a 5:31 p.m. time stamp, was obtained by the Free Press shortly after it was sent.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Surveillance video shows a time stamp of just before 10:11 a.m., when the attacker shot out the doors.
    Jonathan Mattise, Travis Loller and Holly Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Each message appeared in the standard WeChat format: a time stamp, the sender’s name, an avatar, and the text within a bubble.
    Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

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