How to Use quick time in a Sentence

quick time

noun
  • But after a quick time out, Reeves returned to the game.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Kristoffersen rose from 10th-fastest in the morning with the quickest time in the second run.
    — Graham Dunbar, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • That was until Martinez rolled up and smashed yet another record in double quick time.
    — SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Obiri is yet to test herself over a fast, flat marathon course, and the Olympic race is also unlikely to yield a quick time.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In order to make sense of it all in quick time and make decision-making more efficient, our brain resorts to shortcuts.
    — Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Vanguard is a punishing game with its fast pace and quick time-to-kill, and the competition is as close as its ever been in the esport.
    — Dallas News, 28 May 2022
  • The demand for demining experts is so high that crash courses have been launched, teaching the appropriate skills in double-quick time.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Obviously, the pitchers are helping me with quicker times to the plate and giving me the opportunity to get the ball out on its way.
    — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • First set lost Vondrousova hadn't lost a set prior to the final, so Barty winning the opener and in quick time, must have been a blow.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 8 June 2019
  • The game was littered with quick time events, and its denouement included fighting a zombie Tyrannosaurus rex with a Jeep.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • And unfortunately, many quick time checks turn into text-checks, voicemail checks, email checks and quick Facetime sessions with the grandkids.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
  • Alvarez in particular made excellent progress, showcasing a strong arm and quick times to the plate, getting into a stance with one knee down until seeing a runner take off.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • It’s been two years now since ‘Baby Reindeer’ (which was autobiographical), so this is a pretty, crazy, quick time to turn around the show.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Although the winter weather can be dicey in early February, a Pearland triathlon promises perfect conditions and quick times come race day.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2020
  • His quick time in Baltimore came to a crashing end when he was suspended for one game by the team in Week 14 after refusing to play the week prior.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The remake also seems to be taking a more modern stance on quick time events, the lightly interactive cutscenes during which players have to press specific buttons when a prompt flashes on-screen.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The idea is simple, down 12 ounces of Oberweis chocolate milk before each lap around the Hinsdale Central track, and try to finish with the quickest time.
    — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 1 June 2018
  • The lightning-quick time qualified her for the Olympic trials and still stands as the fourth-fastest 5,000m time in the world, per World Athletics.
    — Janine Puhak, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
  • The results are impressive, with the Model 3 returning quicker times in every acceleration test.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The authorities, tired of recurring bail-outs, are forcing them to recognise which loans are unlikely to be repaid, and to initiate insolvency proceedings in double-quick time.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Type 1 develops in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood, when the body’s own immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, wiping them out in a relatively quick time.
    — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2010
  • Additionally, this project was commissioned and built in just three months, an unexpectedly quick time frame that can enable a rapid response to power problems, relative to the construction of peaker plants, which can take years.
    — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Players would simply point plastic guns at their TV set to rack up points or wait for the prompt to perform button presses that had little to do with what happened on the screen — early precursors to contemporary quick time events.
    — Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Add in the relative quick time to market, the staying power possibilities and ability to both verify the advantages in a lab and have consumers feel the benefits and Khan believed footwear was where to start.
    — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The coronavirus catastrophe has required many individuals, companies and organisations, who never had to do business online before, to shift to the new normal in double-quick time.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The gameplay was extremely fast-paced, with a relatively quick time to kill and very smooth frame rate — while also looking fantastic on my RTX 5090 desktop.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • As Erica York of the Tax Foundation think tank notes, the quickest time frame in which the federal government has previously been able to issue stimulus checks has been six weeks.
    — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Some options available in the accessibility settings include high-contrast modes for clearer visuals, a motion sensitivity option to turn off camera shakes, and an autocomplete for quick time events.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The player controls eight different characters in the space of one night, leading them to make choices that can either spell their salvation or their doom, with QTE (quick time event) button mashes scattered throughout.
    — Aimee Hart, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Such projects are guaranteed approval within 180 days, a lightning-quick time frame in most of the Bay Area, especially Berkeley, where housing developments can take as long as four years to get permitted.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018

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