time line

noun

: a table listing important events for successive years within a particular historical period

usually timeline

ˈtīm-ˌlīn

: a schedule of events and procedures : timetable sense 2

Examples of time line in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There were other irregularities in the time line of the silencer’s discovery. —

Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 In the next room, a wide platform displays mannequins dressed in vintage Oscar outfits (including Francis Ford Coppola’s green velvet tuxedo, from 1973), with a ten-decade time line running along its perimeter. —

Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024 In other words, your substance is dependent on your surroundings and on your place in a time line, and is therefore mutable. —

Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024 There is no estimated time line to open a new location. —

Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for time line

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