timely
Frequently Asked Questions
- It’s impossible to get to school in a timely manner without coffee—I feel like I’m in slow motion otherwise.
- Pay your bills in a timely fashion, or you’ll rack up a lot of late fees.
- Your email was very timely—it answered the question I was about to ask!
Example Sentences
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Back at Yebra's centre, the team's work is particularly timely with weather forecasters predicting a super El Nino this summer - which could increase the probability of extreme heat, drought and bushfires.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Ten items had not been removed at least 20 days later, showing Telegram had breached Australia's online safety rules by failing to investigate and take "timely action", the court statement said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
“California doesn’t have to choose between an accessible, secure election system and timely results,” Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The people who stand to benefit most from less timely reporting include pump-and-dump artists and quick-buck penny-stock promoters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
If someone got into trouble or was going to drown, no timely help would be available out there.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet A House of Dynamite could scarcely be timelier.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
The Education Department’s recent launch of a portal for universities’ foreign-funding disclosures was even timelier than officials likely realized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
But unfortunately for the Fed, the timelier releases won’t come until after, Reid added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
An event That could not timelier prove for our petition!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
“Payrolls tend to be a better guide to the economy’s true momentum than the timeliest estimates of GDP,” wrote Sam Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics in a note Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
It nothing else, it is the timeliest release of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
The timeliest hit Sunday came from first baseman Carlos Santana, with whom the Mariners are 11-1 since acquiring him from the Royals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
But Bolshevism on Trial is the movie that the Jennings Daily Times-Record of Jennings, Louisiana famously proclaimed “the timeliest picture ever screened” on June 3, 1919!
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2020
To die "untimely," as men called it, was the timeliest of all deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
Vocabulary lists containing timely
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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