How to Use on time in a Sentence
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Your cousins show up to your birthday parties on time, sober and dressed appropriately.
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Jacob Robinson,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
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The couple didn’t want to miss out on time with grandkids growing up and started to look at online ads for apartments.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
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Additionally, pay your bills on time and reduce your debt as much as possible.
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Kelsey Neubauer,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
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And most trials run very far behind with around 80% failing to meet their enrollment targets on time.
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Kate Vitasek,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
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In an environment of high interest rates and expensive credit, that gap forces CFOs to rely on credit lines just to pay bills on time.
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Barrett Smith,
Forbes.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Hawley said the Postal Service wasn’t delivering mail on time in Missouri and Kansas for about 75% of parcels.
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Jack Harvel,
Kansas City Star,
30 June 2026
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Journalistic content accounts for 27% of all AI citations, rising to 49% on time-sensitive queries.
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Ronn Torossian,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi changed its laws to accept mail ballots that were postmarked on time but arrived up to five days late.
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Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
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Beccari has personally called on Massimo Osanna, the head of national museums at Italy’s culture ministry, to ensure the location is ready on time.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
3 July 2026
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Defensemen Victor Hedman and Ryan McDonagh, and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy also were limited in the preseason but were able to open the season on time.
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Eduardo A. Encina,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2026
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According to their data, 100% of Breakthrough participants graduate from high school on time and more than 99% enroll immediately in college, with over 90% of them enrolling in four-year institutions.
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Austin Horn
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Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
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Several months earlier, county auditors identified lax accounting procedures that resulted in LAHSA’s failure to pay its contractors on time.
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David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
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