How to Use time stamp in a Sentence

time stamp

noun
  • The time stamps don’t match the time of the murder.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Three trays of hot dog buns were missing time stamps.
    — Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • So the second one has become kind of a time stamp.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Carry one of those bottles with the time stamps.
    — Krista Diamond, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2025
  • The time stamp on the video then jumps to five minutes later.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • Make notes of who said what and when, including date and time stamps.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Container of cooked onion and green chilies stored with no date/time stamp.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Quickly state the date and year on audio if there’s no way to see a time stamp.
    — Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Slide a single text to the left to reveal the time stamp on all of the texts on the page.
    — Emily Price, Seventeen, 6 Aug. 2014
  • Egg noodles on a rack at the cooking line did not have a proper time stamp.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2025
  • These background signals serve as time stamps on the recordings.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2018
  • This time stamp tells us when these minerals were buried (or trapped in an object like a pot).
    — Alex Schoeman, Quartz, 29 May 2021
  • Much of the location data attached to these app names does not have a time stamp.
    — Joseph Cox, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There is no time stamp on it — unlike his other works, which have a copyright with his name and date.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Viewers can see the time stamps of where Mitchell is in the delivery process.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The department said the photos and videos do not include date or time stamps.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The color coding works as more than a time stamp, perspective-wise.
    — Robert Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The monologue has no time stamp, no constraints of pace or length imposed by the rest of the novel.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Also, don’t forget to check the time stamps, which will show that they were written in broad daylight.
    — Lucas Gardner, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2020
  • The time stamp is the length of time into the debate each person began their statement.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The brand explains how a player got her kit number with the size of her first boots and the time stamp of one of her best plays.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
  • The exchanges began in March, according to the time stamp on the texts.
    — CNN, 8 June 2019
  • The time stamps end eight seconds later with the truck going 50 mph in the middle lane.
    — The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
  • There is a digital thread with the date of the tender confirmation and the time stamp.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Stone cast doubt on the phone records, saying the time stamps weren’t reliable or the calls didn’t fit the timeline laid out by the state.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
  • YouTube’s version will pick up the audio from the same time stamp as the clip a user is replicating.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Records from CenturyLink and time stamps from the data files led agents to two of the victims, one of whom was a child.
    — Serena O'Sullivan, azcentral, 7 June 2019
  • The blurring appears to be covering a line of text on the surveillance footage near the top of the images, just under the time stamp.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The only connection data held on its servers are time stamps, which are deleted after 15 minutes.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026
  • An employee put on gloves without washing their hands first, some food in the display case didn’t have a time stamp and mouse droppings were found in the restroom.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2026

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