time-poor

adjective

1. lacking spare time or leisure time
2. under pressure to complete activities quickly

Example Sentences

We kept shooting because we were time-poor and had to get that stuff.

From The Daily Beast

He spoke with pitying scorn of the money-clinking crowd who were too time-poor to enjoy the keenest delights that earth can offer.

From Project Gutenberg

"Every time poor, dear Blanche opens her mouth diamonds and pearls of wisdom come forth," he whispered to me.

From Project Gutenberg

At that time poor Bunce was being hustled about in the crowd in the vicinity of Mr. Turnbull's carriage.

From Project Gutenberg

Who knows but in her time poor goody Moore may have met with a Lovelace, or a Belford, or some such vile fellow?

From Project Gutenberg

But in the mean time poor Main had like to have paid dear for his superior skill in his profession.

From Project Gutenberg