How to Use timing in a Sentence

timing

noun

• The timing of the sale could not have been better.
• Her timing was a little off and she missed the shot.
• One was to move the timing of the drills to earlier in the day.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• No, what was off was the timing, the misery of the moment.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Will De Oliveira’s charges affect the timing of the case?
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• The timing of Jankel and Morton’s day in the sun is not lost on them.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
• But if there's a moment that comes along and the timing is right.
  — Galen Druke, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Brunch is of course breakfast + lunch, but does the blend refer to the timing of the meal or the menu?
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• No deal is safe anymore, and the timing couldn’t be worse.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• The timing of the arrival of the pandas has not been announced.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• The stalk on the left side of the steering wheel is the spark advance, which controls the spark timing.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2022
• Thanks to the chaos of the pandemic, the timing and level of RSV surges have been in flux.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 25 Oct. 2024
• The timing of any rate cuts will depend on the health of the economy.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• The best timing for storms appears to be the 2-to-8-p.m. window, west to southeast.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• The timing of this loss will also be keenly felt in Kyiv.
  — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
• It’s not just the number of cases, but also the timing of the wave that’s alarming.
  — Alice Park, Time, 1 Nov. 2022
• The timing of many Heat practices and shootarounds means morning rush hour.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
• But climate change is throwing off the timing of those events.
  — Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
• The timing of Flovent's generic makeover falls in line with new rules about drug pricing.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2023
• The timing of Forsythe’s lightbulb idea couldn’t have been better.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2023
• But once a mom, always a mom and sometimes the timing doesn't work out with finding love.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• Botha’s timing was unlucky, as tech stocks tanked that year.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
• The six-year period matched the timing that Ozempic has been on the market.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
• In fact, timing was one of the crucial problems with Measure 110.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• For the first time this season, the Charlotte 49ers have dropped three games in a row — and coming on the first weekend of March, the timing couldn’t be much worse.
  — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 2 Mar. 2024
• This drill’s focus is on building the skills that enable you to shoot and drive the gun with fluid timing.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 2023
• Jonas is also a playwright, and her sense of pace and timing are refined.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2022
• The exact timing of the event for you depends on where you’re located.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• Trump is poised to enjoy almost perfect timing in taking the reins of an economy on the rise.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
• The timing worked out perfectly: for more than six months leading up until then, Bear had been trying to get gigs scoring projects but had been striking out.
  — Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024