How To Use Opportune In A Sentence

The timing of our statement is very opportune.
He thinks it so; otherwise, He would not have revealed His Trinitarian Nature until a more 'opportune' time. Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
Journalists alarmed by the directions of both the profession and journalism education said the initiative comes at an opportune time.
This is an intriguing and opportune time to launch a new journal dedicated to the study of the presidents, first ladies, and White House.
Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has said that relations between Britain and Spain "are those of allies and friendly nations", but she said Spain considered the visit "inopportune". Well, diddums

The beginning of the academic year is an opportune time to reflect on education and its role in society.
Not much of a stargazer, myself, as that type of "opportune" brillance can be blinding. Black Hillary Backers In South Carolina Tried To Block Obama Invite
These facts can, of course, be brought to one's attention by unmeant gestures or inopportune intrusions.
The snivel, therefore, from our mines to to jack up its delivery services is not only opportune but one which should be taken seriously.
This might be an opportune time to explore or return to hobbies, leisure activities or career pursuits.
They often tried to force the play early and, with unforced errors also creeping in at inopportune times, they rarely completed sets of six.
Billy is a teenage shutterbug who always seems to cram his camera in the most inopportune places.
Moreover, he says, ‘given the pullbacks in valuation and increased volatility, we feel this actually is an opportune time for these instruments,’ at least for companies with solid prospects.
Same with her car, which had a way of breaking down at the most inopportune of spots. SUDDENLY
Again, though, a lot of people made uncharacteristic mistakes at inopportune moments that cost Scotland dearly.
This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
That was before he started writing books ‘from the inside’ and publishing them at very inopportune moments.
This would facilitate the opportune identification of patients who would benefit from treatment.
This message spread at an opportune time. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
The timing of these tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa could not have been more opportune and is an ideal chance to get acclimatized to the conditions.
I list it along with bluebottles, broken glass, backwash and muggers - the last-mentioned not actually in the surf but lurking in the nearby sanddunes, waiting for an opportune moment to interface with you and your valuables.
The factors influencing the prognosis on omphalocele include the opportune moment of surgical repair, the type of omphalocele, the weight at birth, the accompany malformation and complication.
Chou said that he would definitely go public if he was seeing someone, though he would choose the most 'opportune' time to do so. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
The influx of fresh cash comes at an opportune time. Times, Sunday Times
Greatly refreshed by this opportune bit and sup, the tired and "droukit" rider cheerfully resumed his way; and it was with a stout heart that, after a certain time, he found Roderick cautiously leading the pony down to the water's edge. Prince Fortunatus
So it is an opportune time to consider an investment into the Middle East and North Africa.
More than anything else this made him feel truly a radio man, not just the voice of radio itself, the very fact of amplification, the human voice lifted miles, beamed from the high ground, a nexus of the opportune. Style in Fiction
A moment of good fortune at a most opportune moment. The Sun
As I brooded over this strange tale of a daughter's devotion I watched the sea and sky for something that would give me a clue to the inevitable sequel that the tillicum, like all his race, was surely withholding until the opportune moment. Legends of Vancouver
Supposing you have recently been bordering on boredom, use this opportune session to add more zest to your existence.
He rushed the net at opportune moments and breezed through in less than two hours. Times, Sunday Times
Now is an opportune time to kick off a pan-national campaign for energy conservation.
In terms of the world context, this is probably one of the most inopportune moments to announce further cuts to royalties and taxes.
Sir Granite had returned most unexpectedly, at a moment that could best be described as inopportune. Sir Apropos of Nothing
With so much bad weather, surely this is an opportune time to sit down and put something together, and who knows, you could be lucky.
This message spread at an opportune time. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
Sometimes, it is true, he did slip down to the corner for maybe zwei glasses of beer and a game of pinocle; but then, likely as not, there would come inopportunely a towheaded descendant to tell him Mommer needed him back at the flat right away to mind the baby while she went marketing or to the movies. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
He moved that the petition should be referred to the consideration 'of a committee'; but Pitt, in spite of his own measure on the subject in 1785, was now lukewarm about Reform, and accordingly opposed as 'inopportune' such an inquiry. Lord John Russell
Now Thailand must confront the likelihood of further unrest at a inopportune time.
Some dreams are interrupted during the most inopportune moments, especially those that reflect hidden desires.
It is an opportune time to reduce hazards around your home in the lead up to summer conditions.
Snake Pilot by Randy Zahn comes along at an opportune time.
an inopportune visit
Inebriation, if not the wisest way to console and repress, is at least an opportune way to live with the knowledge that it is impossible to win affection. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
If it must be sold, wait for the opportune time in the markets.
The election of Dmitry Medvedev as Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor to be president of Russia provides an opportune moment to initiate a long-overdue review of America's strategy toward Russia.
This might be an opportune time to explore or return to hobbies, leisure activities or career pursuits.
She said it was an opportune time to encourage the formation and growth of small rural-based food enterprises on a regional basis.
What next - will we be banned from taking any photograph in any public place just in case a minor happens to walk in front of the lens at an inopportune moment?!
The timing of our statement is very opportune.
And as a capsheaf to it all, the painter must choose an opportune moment and present his beautiful carriage and horses to the Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
Your arrival was most opportune.
I waited, hoping for an opportune moment to discuss the possibility of a raise.
Struck with sudden inspiration, Miss Martha seized the occasion so opportunely offered.
We lurked on the email discussion list, posting pointed questions at opportune moments.
He travelled to Bristol, to London, to Kent, everywhere preaching the truth — opportune, importune, tempestive, to use the language ironically applied by him to the Bishop of London, [150] — and this, too, with his health greatly weakened and impaired. Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation
It will visit upon us an important event at an inopportune time, as if to illustrate how inconsequential our influence on the greater scheme.
This is perhaps the most opportune time to make a beginning.
But an irritating and inopportune appearance of honour made him hesitate to benefit from her rejection by Alfred at least for tonight.
Aside from those "opportune" moments when far-edge or off-screen characters or objects are making sounds, the mix remains focused in the center channel with the two directional music stems used to provide some spread and presence to the score. Home Theater Forum
But I've gotten laughs at a couple of inopportune moments also.
His analysis of bluffing as a poker strategy, as well as his research on dueling -- using statistics to determine the most opportune moment for a dueler to shoot -- helped establish him as an expert in game theory. David H. Blackwell dies at 91; pioneering statistician at Howard and Berkeley
Or the challenged ship, believing herself to be the faster craft of the two, clapped on all sail, caught an opportune "slatch of wind," and showed her pursuer a clean pair of heels, the tender's guns meanwhile barking away at her until she passed out of range. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
Instead, Mitscher aimed for Okinawa, striking opportune targets and conducting photoreconnaissance there on March 1. Whirlwind
To assign different animation clip to every particles, inside the Instance menu set up opportunely the Object Index attribute.
This system can also contribute to fuel saving by permitting regeneration at opportune times such as when the vehicle is on overrun.
And sure enough, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, acknowledging that Zelaya's gambit has indeed changed the terms of the debate, issued a statement saying that the time was "opportune" to restore Zelaya to the presidency. Greg Grandin: Manuel Zelaya's Nightime Return to Honduras
So this is an opportune moment to examine opportunities for tax reform. Times, Sunday Times
This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
His presence in Miss Moore's house at a time so inopportune is unexplained. The Filigree Ball
They haven't had many openings that are this opportune for them, and so they're naturally taking it, and you know, one can't blame them, that's politics.
Make your plan - then wait for the opportune moment to submit it.
an opportune arrival
I'm sorry, you've called at an inopportune moment.
He memorises quotes from movies and blurts them out at inopportune moments.
It could also be an opportune time to switch to a fixed or capped product to protect from any further price hikes. Times, Sunday Times
The timing of the meetings was opportune.
Porter bought Goat Island and Preserved it at an opportune moment.
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Being the naturally suspicious (OK then, paranoid) type, I decide this is an opportune moment to get up and grab a glass of water from the dispenser.
How is he to know that he's rung at an inopportune moment.
The three grants totalling US $7.3 million given to Zambia by Japan could not have come at a more opportune time.
Citigroup cut its losses on a similar trade after deciding its timing had been "inopportune," strategists Todd Elmer in New York and Michael Hart in London wrote in a March 25 note. BusinessWeek.com --
he arrived rather opportunely just when we needed a new butler
The film comes at an opportune moment. Times, Sunday Times
What inadequate lighting exists is unreliable, flickering off at the most inopportune moments.
All agreed that "you couldn't beat cold boiled duck by much"; but in the morning grilled fish was accepted as "just the thing for breakfast"; then finding ourselves face to face with Lot's wife, and not too much of that, we beat a hasty retreat to the homestead; a further opportune "catch" of duck giving us heart for further brumby encounters and another night's camp out-bush. We of the Never-Never
An opportune moment to think about raising money, perhaps? Times, Sunday Times
An opportune absence might be the first step toward rehabilitation.
That condition of soil known as honeycombed furnishes a peculiarly opportune time for sowing these seeds, as it provides a covering for them while the land is moist, and thus puts them in a position to germinate as soon as growth begins. Clovers and How to Grow Them
Should I leave the class, get a pedicure or feign injury at opportune moments? Times, Sunday Times
Journalists alarmed by the directions of both the profession and journalism education said the initiative comes at an opportune time.
So when an opportune fog bank rolled in, he got into a wee boat, hoping to sneak away from the action unmissed. The legend of Stamp’s Landing, with bonus legend decoder « raincoaster
This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
This rapprochement occurred at an opportune moment. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
As the name of the bay suggests, tiger sharks lurk nearby, waiting for opportune times to attack.
As soon as we got near enough to lend a hand the Turks resigned themselves with a kind of opportune fatalism. The Eye of Zeitoon
We competed well tonight but we turned the ball over in inopportune times," Magic coach Johnny Davis said. USATODAY.com
But it was too late; the consulting detective had blinked away; his mirthfulness, manifesting itself at the most inopportune times, An East Wind Coming
Programme (UNDP) to familiarise more than 100 incoming MPs on parliamentary conduct, was "opportune", the state-owned Herald noted in its Monday edition. ANC Daily News Briefing
But I'm learning to accept my awkwardness and lack of loving the social element at seemingly inopportune times.
The timing is opportune because of a crisis. Christianity Today
an opportune time to receive guests
So this is a very opportune time to invest in green energy. Times, Sunday Times
You might have planned out a whole series of attacks, but one inopportune roll and your turn is over.
He also believed it was an opportune time to walk away.
For without question, a clyster opportunely used, cannot choose in this, as most other maladies, but to do very much good; Clysteres nutriunt, sometimes clysters nourish, as they may be prepared, as I was informed not long since by a learned lecture of our natural philosophy [4278] reader, which he handled by way of discourse, out of some other noted physicians. Anatomy of Melancholy
And as a capsheaf to it all, the painter must choose an opportune moment and present his beautiful carriage and horses to the King, for the belief was rife that the King of Spain was really more horsey than artistic. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
It would have to wait for a more opportune time, she decided, and replaced the receiver.
Now this could be an opportune time to have a look at our own railway lines and get a few facts or fallacies cleared up once and for all.
A fault of mine had always been that the most acidic responses came to mind at the most inopportune times.
When the initial shock wore off I think we all felt a bit cheated that such a huge bombshell should be dropped at such an inopportune moment.
He recognised the value of making concessions to the colonists where possible, and it was opportune that his term of office coincided with a relaxation of policy from London and the recognition of land claims by squatters.
People are loyal until it seems more opportune not to be. Times, Sunday Times
His thoughts went back, inopportunely enough, to the time when he had been surgeon's dresser in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
I waited, hoping for an opportune moment to discuss the possibility of a raise.
If he managed to get out of that industry before a crisis, his opportune sense of timing seems unlikely to hold this time. Times, Sunday Times
Rashard Lewis tended to vanish at inopportune moments.
The victory came at a very opportune time for the allies. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
It is his function to persuade with winged words his adversary, the company's local underwriter or "counterman," that the stock of cheap millinery belonging to the Slavonic gentlemen with the unfortunate record of two fires of unknown origin and two opportune failures is even more desirable -- at the rate -- than the large line on the substantial office building which he half exhibits, holding suggestively back. White Ashes
He couldn't help but blush every time she caught him staring in her direction and he'd often find himself dreaming of her at the most inopportune moments.
We find this an opportune time to write this piece as high stakes testing currently looms large over schools, teachers, and students.
As a rule, I can put off these inopportune demands.
You had, unwittingly, called at an inopportune time as I had just cut my finger on a tin of anchovies and Carlo was helping me staunch the flow of blood.
If investors feel obliged to recompute all statistics, they may miss the most opportune trading moments. Times, Sunday Times
He believes this to be an opportune time for the further implementation and acceptance of the arts in health care.
he arrived inopportunely just as we sat down for dinner
This is an unhelpful hyperbole, but it is certainly true that there must be contexts in which a statement of these truths is politically inopportune.
And just at the most inopportune moment, the guy turned this way.
This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
I’m sure every person on this earth has at one time or another experienced a moment of discomfort even in inopportune moments in public. Chris Martin Rolling Stone Magazine Interview June 2008
Yesterday's triumph could also not have come at a more opportune moment. The Sun
He'll pick an opportune moment, of course, when the batter is adjusting his gloves and looking at the third base coach. USATODAY.com - Miller's aces in good hands
According to Cohen, 2001 was an opportune time to launch.
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In the evenings, the motor yacht is opportunely anchored for the sublime South Pacific sunsets, best viewed from the broad Sky Deck with a Fiji Bitter in one hand and a camera in the other.
During our circuit he had displayed a fiery zeal against heresy and schism, by foully abusing every Persian in his path8; and the inopportune introduction of hard words into his prayers made the latter a strange patchwork; as “Ave Maria purissima, — arrah, dont ye be letting the pig at the pot, — sanctissima,” and so forth. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
That I regarded it as "opportune," not "_à un moment donné_," but in principle and in time of peace is correct. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
So we drive to the school and wait until the opportune time when the buses are all unloading. Times, Sunday Times
I decided that this was the opportune time for me to make my move.
Mickelson, whose history in majors is littered with bad swings at inopportune moments, got his bad shots out of the way early before shooting a 32 on the back nine to get in contention. USATODAY.com - Mickelson steady in opening day at Augusta
He said now is the opportune time to regularise the group's status from renters to owners.
Think back over the past six months and it becomes ineluctable: never in the history of modern warfare has so much been found so opportunely.
Sometime , my mother would trick us in the work, opportunely, we were playing the game.
He rushed the net at opportune moments and breezed through in less than two hours. Times, Sunday Times
Firstly, it always happens at the most inopportune moments, and secondly, it's generally about a subject you haven't got a clue about.
I believe that I have arrived at a very opportune moment.
Gas row 'opportune' for Russia to put pressure on Belarus - Lukashenko RIA Novosti
It was an opportune time to get hopeful about medal prospects. Times, Sunday Times
Do they spy round the corner, just waiting for the opportune moment? Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, act appears to be an opportune word after watching the ridiculous histrionics performed during the Uefa Cup and Champions League finals.
arrived at a most inopportune hour
In a statement, the royal palace called a political crisis "inopportune". Free Internet Press
These negative forces were unleashed on us at a most inopportune time, when the country started reaping nature's rewards in the form of an abundance of oil dollars.
Most experts agreed that his demand for the removal of the Wall was inopportune, utopian, and crazy.
It was the misfortune of Grenville that this "interweaving," as Pownall described it, should have been undertaken at a most inopportune time, when the very conditions which made Englishmen conscious of the burden of empire were giving to Americans a new and highly stimulating sense of power and independence. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England
This message spread at an opportune time. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
This is an opportune time for nurses to make their voices heard and help design the policies that eventually will affect their nursing practice.
an opportune place to make camp
On one of them the battery dies at an inopportune moment so I have to go get a supervisor.
It is therefore an opportune time to review what distinguishes this centre of learning from other universities.

How To Use Opportune In A Sentence

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