right word at the right time

The odds of a sinkhole opening within me were approximately equal to the odds that I’d find the right word at the right time, something I’d done with ease before the accident as a professional freelance writer.

Writing, for instance, allows the person with dementia to bypass the world of traditional language, where they may not get the right word at the right time, and slip into their own world of metaphor, Basting explained.

The habit, acquired in youth, of always keeping up his dignity; the knowledge that the eyes of all were upon him; a due consideration for the claims of those about him; the need of always speaking the right word at the right time; above all, the art of ignoring--an art in which others refrain from indulging themselves, and which, for that very reason, requires practice--and, added to this, the consciousness of possessing kingly power:--all this prevented him from betraying the slightest trace of ill-humor.

It was a long while before the shouting and the cheering ceased, and I think I spoke the right word at the right time.

She always had the right word at the right time.