How To Use In the nick of time In A Sentence
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she was saved in the nick of time
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Sam and Flick dived aside in the nick of time, just before the entire wooden shelf splintered against the floor.
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It came in the nick of time.
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This welcome boost came just in the nick of time.
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I managed to hitch a ride on Josh's airplane just in the nick of time.
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Father Reillys after reading it in gallous Latin, and Its come in the nick of time, says he; so Ill wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer whod capsize the stars.
Act Three
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Bourchier's battery coming up in the nick of time, the hostile guns were soon silenced, and Gough, having succeeded in getting through the _jhil_, made a most plucky charge, in which he captured two guns and killed a number of the enemy.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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She did, and in the nick of time.
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Relieved of the weight upon his shoulders, Clen had a fighting chance for his life, but it is doubtful if he would have won had it not been that the Indian, missing him at last, returned in the nick of time, and with the aid of a loop of _babiche_, succeeded in drawing him from the water.
The Gold Girl
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Anyway, to cut a long story very short, the gutters made it up onto the house and they sloped the right way because I realised in the nick of time that water does not flow uphill.
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Luckily, help arrived in the nick of time.
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It came in the nick of time.
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My intervention came in the nick of time, and tested the very limits of his fistfight brinkmanship.
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What is certain is that this rhetorical transformation has come just in the nick of time.
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This welcome boost came just in the nick of time.
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A MUM arrived at hospital in the nick of time to give birth after getting a lift from police.
The Sun
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She did, and in the nick of time.
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Harrogate were camped in their half for the entire game and despite marking Elliot Dowley ferociously were not able to match his pace and he put away a winner in the nick of time.
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-- Father Reilly's after reading it in gallous Latin, and "It's come in the nick of time," says he; "so I'll wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer who'd capsize the stars.
The Playboy of the Western World; a Comedy in Three Acts
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A MUM arrived at hospital in the nick of time to give birth after getting a lift from police.
The Sun
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“Just in the nick of time, and not a moment too soon,” contended the artillerist, “Gen. S. rallied them the infantry and turned them ‘right about face.’”
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
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Radio contact was established in the nick of time and we managed to transmit a message to the ship.
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His generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time.
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The film, a black-and-white comedy about a rock band going AWOL in northern Ontario, was finished just in the nick of time.
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What is certain is that this rhetorical transformation has come just in the nick of time.
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What is certain is that this rhetorical transformation has come just in the nick of time.
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I managed to slam on the brakes in the nick of time to avoid getting into an accident, tyres screeching and all.
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As the wagons were corralled into an even tighter circle at the Crescent, the Trust arrived like the cavalry in the nick of time.
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I reached him in the nick of time with a kitchen towel.
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He remembered in the nick of time that his passport was in his coat pocket.
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I had miscarried a year ago May and we had just gotten pregnant in the nick of time to have the baby before My Hubby deployed again.
Feeling Bad Instead of Sad - SpouseBUZZ
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The behind-the-scenes incivilities have been eradicated, in the nick of time, the defence is rebuilt and confidence is climbing.
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Even though the potentially ruinous musicians' strike was settled in the nick of time, ticket sales have been soft in recent weeks, and it remains to be seen how they'll be affected by unfolding events in the Persian Gulf.
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That he had already produced an atmosphere of danger to us I had immediate proof, for as I crossed the yard again I dodged behind an araba in the nick of time to avoid a blow aimed at me with a sword by a man I could not see.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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She did, and in the nick of time.
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If you don't hear the milk boiling over, you won't dash to the rescue in the nick of time.
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It came in the nick of time.
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I reached him in the nick of time with a kitchen towel.
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A MUM arrived at hospital in the nick of time to give birth after getting a lift from police.
The Sun
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However, several colleagues had learned of the plot and came just in the nick of time to prevent the man from depressurizing the chamber.
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his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time
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They experienced directly a conflict of powers, one hostile to the harvest, the other frightening but beneficial: the thunderstorm reprieved them in the nick of time by defeating and utterly destroying the drought.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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I reached him in the nick of time with a kitchen towel.
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Arlington Mill is one of those mills that was pulled back from the brink of destruction in the nick of time.
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Mrs. McKay rapidly reads it as Uncle Jack is bestowing bags and bundles in the omnibus and feeing the acceptive porter, who now rushes back to the boat in the nick of time.
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
