well-timed
fittingly or appropriately timed; opportune; timely: a well-timed demand for new legislation.
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How to use well-timed in a sentence
Titanic has sometimes made $50,000 in a few weeks of well-timed chipping and putting at golf resorts.
Like Stealth Wear, the Off Pocket received a well-timed boost from the news.
The OFF Pocket Is a Pouch That Takes Your Phone Off the Grid | Josh Dzieza | September 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe took on the unions that were again attempting to extort New Yorkers with well-timed strikes.
‘Hizzoner’ Ed Koch, Three-Term Mayor of New York, Dies at 88 | John Avlon | February 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was only a well-timed grab to the chest area that kept her upright.
The most obvious example of special-interest pandering was his well-timed “evolution” favoring gay marriage.
The Tribal Election: Barack Obama Turns to the Karl Rove Playbook | Joel Kotkin | July 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
With honeyed words, and well-timed flattery she detached State after State from the Union.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.The aim was excellent, and well-timed shrapnel would have been very damaging.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine ChildersIt has been esteemed a well-timed, as well as a well-merited compliment here, and has its good effects.
It was very clear now to Frances Forsyth that Mrs. Bladon's manœuvre had been well timed.
But for this well-timed obliteration, the sharp-eyed savages could not have failed to note the traces of its recent occupancy.
The Land of Fire | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for well-timed
happening or scheduled to happen at an appropriate or suitable time
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