in time to

idiom

: in a way that matched the speed of

We clapped in time to the music.

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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock signee missed the season's first 24 games because of a hand injury but returned to the lineup in time to provide an immediate spark in one of the night's marquee matchups. —

Erick Taylor, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2025 The four of us – my wife and our two boys, ages 4 and 7 – got to the airport in Paris in time to catch the Air France flight to Miami. —

Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025 Sarah wounds Cody with a corkscrew and reaches Frida in the woods just in time to kill the bodyguard with a large rock. —

Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025 Today’s history lesson starts in 2002, when Mario Cuomo’s son, Andrew, returned to New York just in time to launch a divisive challenge against our best hope for a Black governor, Carl McCall. —

Bertha Lewis, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for in time to