How to Use time line in a Sentence

time line

noun
Definition of time linenext
  • Martin says the time line of the video doesn't make sense to her.
    — Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Larry Scott says the time line for the Pac-12′s return to play could change.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2020
  • There must be a time line to measure the achievement of each goal.
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • But there was not a time line, Sean, in this message tonight.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Both of these time lines are twice as fast as required by law.
    — George J. Terwilliger Iii, WSJ, 26 July 2017
  • So our time line, which usually runs in a straight line, has a fork in the road and splits.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
  • That time line would miss much of this season’s harvest.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 19 June 2022
  • And the second act compresses the time line a little too hard.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 14 May 2018
  • The project’s time line has yet to be impacted by the council debate.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Historic time is the time line of those inside-out turning events.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Like the branches of a tree, one time line can give rise to a multiverse of other time lines.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There is no time line for when Stivers plans to deliver a verdict.
    — Lauren Del Valle and Ellie Kaufman, CNN, 27 Sep. 2017
  • So, on the time line of existence, an old car should come before a new baby.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
  • No hard-and-fast time lines are cited in board documents.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
  • The time line for the subsequent mission launches depends on the results of the Artemis I mission.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and then minute-by-minute time line returns when the exhibition turns to the hijackers.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The safe haven is the first of three planned for other areas of the county, but no time line or locations have been announced.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The order, which is scheduled to go into effect in 45 days, gives a strict timeline for ByteDance to sell the business.
    — Natalie Jarvey, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Just a week prior, Ryan got a full-time line job stringing powerlines from pole to pole.
    — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • Kubiak, in turn, moved to bring in his long-time line coach Dennison.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Barry kept reconstructing the time line over and over again.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 18 June 2018
  • The show’s latter time line is a spiky exploration of the feminist dream deferred.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Whether the gaps in safety will result in further delays to NuScale’s time line remains to be seen.
    — David Levitan, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The result, though still sprawling, isn’t as unwieldy as the eighteen-million-year time line of Liu’s novels.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The suit challenged the time line of the police investigation and search efforts.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2018
  • To put these into a time line, though, astronomers need to figure out where each snapshot belongs.
    — Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The four protagonists are played by eight actors—one in each time line—all of whom are excellent.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Nebraska kept a triangle of defenders in the backcourt, leading to a trap near the time line and a high-arcing pass to the other side of the court.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2023
  • One wall was covered by a twenty-three-foot-long time line of world history first published in 1871, starting from Adam and Eve.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

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