How To Use Punctual In A Sentence

He used be punctual for the rehearsals and I had to think a hundred times before telling him anything,’ said Farah.
He promised more punctual and reliable services. Times, Sunday Times
We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armoured cars in foggy weather.
Mrs Ronayne, 29, from Old Town, said: ‘Rosie was due today, so is very punctual.’
Class attendance and punctuality requirements were strict.

I am sure you are, please find your seats and remember that newness is not an excuse for unpunctuality.
Not being punctual is his greatest shortcoming.
When asked what they considered important in their choice of transport, they rated punctuality and safety as the main reasons.
Luckily none of the 12 people who had turned up to see me had been discouraged by my unpunctuality.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
While they are super-fast, comfortable, punctual and convenient, the Shinkansen trains are not cheap.
The airline added that punctuality had improved in November and said it was working with the airport 's owners and air traffic control to improve service. Times, Sunday Times
Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia. In Search of the Castaways
Our trains are much more punctual and people are a lot happier, the old nickname seems to be gradually disappearing altogether.
Solution: work to begin at 8.45, spot check on punctuality levels, absenteeism. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
Habitually unpunctual, he seldom arrived at his office before 1 p.m., but then stayed late, writing heavily annotated letters of recommendation that turned many customers into friends.
They were compassionate, punctual which is a big deal to me, professional and articulate. Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What?
I consider offering the countervailing maxim ‘punctuality is the politeness of kings’, but feel it might sound priggish.
It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion. Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
The airline added that punctuality had improved in November and said it was working with the airport 's owners and air traffic control to improve service. Times, Sunday Times
We performs strict quality control, careful and endurable packing, and punctual delivery time.
He's always very punctual. I'll see if he's here yet.
‘But you are so unpunctual,’ he said, having at last made up his mind that he had made a very good thing of Charley, and that probably he might go a little further without much danger. The Three Clerks
Something I shall add of my own present judgment in this matter; but with willing, express submission unto those whom the use and experience of things, with knowledge of foreign parts, skill in the rules of commonwealths, acquaintedness with the affections and spirits of men, have enabled to look punctually into the issues and tendencies of such a toleration. The Sermons of John Owen
In reality, most small security firms limit the concept of employee evaluation to an audit of unpunctuality and absenteeism.
He's always very punctual. I'll see if he's here yet.
And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin?
We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armoured cars in foggy weather.
The average time to travel from Point Fortin to San Fernando, and vice versa, is approximately two hours in traffic, if the bus is punctual, which is highly unlikely. TrinidadExpress Today's News
Film stars are notorious for being unreliable, unpunctual, and full of themselves.
So far, he has a perfect punctuality record.
It begins with a character named Zoe who decries the practice of rewarding punctuality while punishing those who are late or disobedient.
Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA union, and a vocal opponent of Network Rail's bonus payments, said the company's claims of record punctuality were "poppycock". Network Rail talks up cost savings and punctuality
In Rye, he had employed Fanny the parlormaid, pretty and quiet and careful, and in Rye, too, he had found a treasure called Burgess Noakes, gnome-sized and not pretty, but making up for it in punctuality and the desire to please. The Master
Miss Ophelia is gay, easy, unpunctual, unpractical, sceptical.
French railways are renowned for their fast, comfortable, punctual and clean trains. Collins Traveller, Brittany
They love to brag they are the most punctual airline but that appears to me to be the result of extending journey flight times. The Sun
Now you might say phooey - punctuality is one thing, who cares about the other factors.
Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
The true romantic returns your phone calls straightaway and is always punctual. Times, Sunday Times
Discipline in all walks of life, punctuality, politeness and good manners are expected from the police constables and officers.
He contradicts himself constantly, is temperamental, unpunctual, disorganized and is surrounded by yes-men, he said. " But he does not have a structured mind " with a grand plan to do a Cuban-styled revolution, he added.
Lateness is frowned on in Europe, where anything less than perfect punctuality for a social engagement is considered a rudeness.
If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set. Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European
The local Reserve Defence Forces drawn from D-Company of the 10th infantry battalion, got the eagerly awaited parade off to a punctual start on the stoke of 2.30 pm.
Pay punctually what you owe, especially to your poorest creditors, such as washerwomen and charwomen. Times, Sunday Times
She is always punctual, but her friend is always late.
The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation. Archive 2009-09-01
He arrived punctually at four o'clock.
He's been taken to task for his habitual lack of punctuality.
Insufficient or unpunctual transportation is an economic weakness; chaotic traffic reduces people's quality of life.
Bifo gives a rigorous analysis of just how these effects are manifesting, through an attention to what he calls the depersonalisation and cellularisation of time: 'cells of productive time can be mobilised in punctual, casual and fragmentary forms. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
Because of my Tokyo-bred punctuality, I could not get used to such a casual lifestyle.
Policemen, teachers, civil servants, owners of small family businesses—the baker, the butcher, the florist—who felt tyrannized by regulations and taxes and saw immigrants from Morocco and Turkey both as competitors (with small shops that could sell cheaper goods because they hired cheap, illegal workers) and as bad employees (unpunctual and disrespectful slackers who could not speak proper Dutch). Nomad
He was generous with his media time, arrived punctually in a blazer for the toss, and apparently saw fit to slum it in the same five-star hotels as his team.
The Playfair business was a respectable business to buy; the Plummer Place, though it stood in an unfashionable outskirt, was a respectable place to settle in; and the minister, in casting his lot in Elgin, envisaged John Murchison as part of it, thought of him confidently as a "dependance," saw him among the future elders and office-bearers of the congregation, a man who would be punctual with his pew-rent, sage in his judgements, and whose views upon church attendance would be extended to his family. The Imperialist
Another complaint was the lack of punctuality over her period cycle, and the swelling over her tummy. Practical Aromatherapy
The company has previously blamed poor punctuality on air traffic control strikes. The Sun
I have nearly missed them because of my partner, who is the least punctual person. Times, Sunday Times
‘But you are so unpunctual, Mr. Tudor,’ and Jabesh twisted his head backwards and forwards within his cravat, rubbing his chin with the interior starch. The Three Clerks
Tim Linkinwater condescended, after much entreaty and brow – beating, to accept a share in the house; but he could never be prevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as a partner, and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of his clerkly duties. Nicholas Nickleby
Hungarians have learnt to be more punctual and correct in our relations, being more influenced by the west,’ she said.
Poor punctuality is also a problem in some schools.
My guest arrived punctually.
Roxana has always made her payments on time, which explains why she is known as a punctual and responsible person. Kiva Loans
He's always very punctual. I'll see if he's here yet.
Mr. Bowyer, however, he had so implicit a confix deuce in the punctuality of his friend, a» never to require a voucher. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
She had a reputation for punctuality.
Casting his eye upon his own character, two things appeared to him: that he was very unpunctual, and that he disliked answering notes. The Voyage Out
Why get riled if this week's citizens are aggravatingly unreliable or irritatingly unpunctual?
They love to brag they are the most punctual airline but that appears to me to be the result of extending journey flight times. The Sun
Always be punctual for an interview.
Trains are dirty, unpunctual and (if travelling at peak time) I sometimes get a seat.
All they ask is that their protégés be clean, punctual, polite and show willing. Times, Sunday Times
I had some dealings with him, and to my amazement, he never agreed to a discount and was always punctual in meeting delivery deadlines.
And the native turned out to have a luncheon basket on his head so my heart rose, and by and bye a big fellow in khaki stravaiged out of the shades -- a jovial, burly Britisher called "Boots," -- told me he was hunting up the other fellows, and that they had got home late last night -- this about half an hour after time fixed -- so much for Indian punctuality hereaway! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
Please make every endeavour to arrive punctually.
Puckishly pleadingly is a free weight loss plan enterokinase on the sexy innocence of croatian or punctually on the garbed plowed needlepoint of the fool, as the devourer has to marquess a nodular faraday. Rational Review
Punctual to the moment, the railway train, conveying the redoubtable genius, glid into the well-lighted, elegant little station of Laverick Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
His comfortable, unpunctual days became subject to the unaltering routine of a palace.
The cat makes a punctual appearance at mealtimes.
He's always very punctual. I'll see if he's here yet.
Punctual as a clock, he works like a galley slave at his lectures.
We have not directed the plan or treatment or scope of any essay; and my own editorial supervision has consisted merely in making detailed suggestions on smaller points, in exhorting contributors to be punctual and diligent, and generally revising what the New Testament calls jots and tittles. Cambridge Essays on Education
He promised more punctual and reliable services. Times, Sunday Times
Road and cried Abies Magnifica! not, noble fir?) a quarter of nine, imploring his resipiency, saw the infallible spike of smoke’s jutstiff punctual from the seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus’ porphyroid buttertower and then thirsty p.m. with oaths upon his lastingness (En caecos harauspices! Finnegans Wake
The ICE service is clean, efficient and very punctual. Times, Sunday Times
The classic complaints involve poor punctuality, delays caused by engineering works and exorbitant fares.
I have nearly missed them because of my partner, who is the least punctual person. Times, Sunday Times
Thus the doctrine of the Assumption fleshes out the real point of Mariology, which is to "punctualize" in a real person what it is to be a disciple of Christ, and thus to facilitate our growth in that discipline. Archive 2007-08-01
They come down hard on unpunctuality, unless you've a cast-iron excuse. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Secondly, the motion of the spectrum was not gradatim or by steps, or moving of the feet, but by a kind of gliding, as children upon ice, or as a boat down a river, which punctually answers the description the ancients give of the motion of these Lamures. Dorothy Durant
Whoever is unpunctual deserves that other people should reprove him for being unpunctual.
Midland Mainline managing director Paul Bunting said the firm was making ‘the best fist’ of the situation as it could, and was committed to providing punctual and high-quality services.
You should also be punctual and have genned up on the organisation you are being interviewed for.
The company has previously blamed poor punctuality on air traffic control strikes. The Sun
She was recently commended for her outstanding punctuality record.
Only the morning before he'd heard her chide Jo-Beth for being unpunctual; there was nothing informal about her working hours. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Office clerks could be forced to attend punctually at ten; and that wretched saunterer, whom five days a week he saw lounging into the The Three Clerks
When I would write back to him, he would punctually reply, usually on the same day that he received my letter.
They get marked on behaviour, punctuality, contributions in class, quality of work and work completed.
They completed the project not only punctually but also perfectly.
Such was the programme; and the eager curiosity of the select few who were invited brought them punctually to the philosopher's eyry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
But they are cleaner, more punctual and better used than at any time since the 1920s. The Sun
Since this enlightening experience, I have been able to be more punctual with office visits. Living with Angina
Punctuality and regularity at work are two of Cole's other strong points.
Two o'clock on the dot! How's that for punctuality!
The meeting started punctually at 10.00 a.m.
I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
Shanghai began to use its new digital radar control system October 15, on its air route to Japan's Fukuoka, to guarantee the safety of flights and their punctual take-off and landing.
She was accompanied by her older sister, who was also never known for her punctuality.
He was erratic in his job and he lacked punctuality.
Because of my Tokyo-bred punctuality, I could not get used to such a casual lifestyle.
All I request of you that you should be punctual.
Tom and the rest rushed into bed and finished their unrobing there, and the old verger, as punctual as the clock, had put out the candle in another minute, and toddled on to the next room, shutting their door with his usual "Good-night, gen'lm'n. Tom Brown's Schooldays
One of these was punctuality and woe betide anyone who arrived late in school without a very good reason for being so. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
He gave the child a lecture on the importance of punctuality.
He insists on regular attendance and punctuality.
Not being punctual is his greatest shortcoming.
The cat makes a punctual appearance at mealtimes.
He gave the child a lecture on the importance of punctuality.
Yorkshire has among the best and worst performing train operators in the country, according to new industry punctuality figures.
Punctually at 7.45, the express to Kuala Lumpur left Singapore station.
But they are cleaner, more punctual and better used than at any time since the 1920s. The Sun
All our officers are smart, punctual and are fluent English speakers. Times, Sunday Times
During a four-week period ending on July 25, 84.4 percent of trains run by First Great Western were punctual compared to 73.8 per cent in August last year.
Since this enlightening experience, I have been able to be more punctual with office visits. Living with Angina
She lays great stress on punctuality.
But anyway, he is mercifully unstarry on arrival — friendly, punctual and thrilled to find samphire on the menu. Times, Sunday Times
Heaven help me, here's that shilpit creature and me hoping for once she'd slip up and be unpunctual.
I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
We can guarantee the punctual arrival of the armored cars in foggy weather.
Highly esteemed by his colleagues for his straight-forwardness, reliableness, punctuality, and conscientious fidelity in all his official duties, he exercised, here, his calling as teacher in a circle of hearers, at first relatively narrow, but which soon grew visibly larger, especially in the case of his lectures on Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
And the native turned out to have a luncheon basket on his head so my heart rose, and by and bye a big fellow in khaki stravaiged out of the shades -- a jovial, burly Britisher called "Boots," -- told me he was hunting up the other fellows, and that they had got home late last night -- this about half an hour after time fixed -- so much for Indian punctuality hereaway! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
She is always punctual, but her friend is always late.
Ragweed hay fever has a short, punctuated, and punctual season.
Henceforth I expect you to be punctual for meeting.
All our officers are smart, punctual and are fluent English speakers. Times, Sunday Times
The report also advised the school to continue to work on improving pupils' attendance and punctuality.
punctual payment
The tenants are punctual in paying the rent.
Theologically, a sacrament is a tangible sign of grace, of God's divinizing, self-giving presence, which punctualizes that presence in and for those who celebrate the sacrament. Who can be saved: reconceiving the question
This is the kind of balsa-wood backstory that is knocked into Hollywood plots every day. as tidy and punctual as postage stamps 2009 November | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
We cannot guarantee the punctual arrival of trains in foggy weather.
It is unusual for him to come punctually.
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Also, his obsession with time and punctuality does get old after a while, at times threatening to turn the character into a one-trick pony.
He's very punctual always arrives on the dot.
I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
Each of them shows up obediently at my room to be interviewed in turn, like hopeful job applicants - punctual and personable, indulging in nothing heavier than coffee.
View image of page you know, to be punctual, is my motto in all things, the principle, the life-habit whose influence is to modify and control my actions, and which I trust is even now almost indispensable. Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie HoustonNovember 1, 1856
French railways are renowned for their fast, comfortable, punctual and clean trains. Collins Traveller, Brittany
The ICE service is clean, efficient and very punctual. Times, Sunday Times
Students master such things as punctuality and reliability, common courtesy, and appropriate dress for all occasions.
She worked for some time in St. Joseph's Convent of Mercy and is remembered as a very punctual and reliable member of staff, with a pleasant personality and outlook.
These way, notorious unpunctual types (read: college students) won't be locked out if they are 10 minutes "late. Your Idiot's Guide To The Democratic Caucuses
For the punctual payment of this annuity, they order him to give soucar security. [ The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
she expected guests to be punctual at meals
Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. Beard
Despite her classic feminine behaviour, forgetful, clumsy, unpunctual and indecisive, she succeeds in her quest to find Susan (Madonna).
He was usually unpunctual, since Rick was one of those people who liked to show up fashionably late so all the attention could be showered on him as he made his grand entrance.
It also pledged an extra 1.5% in both years if the company met targets on punctuality and achieved cost efficiencies.
Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer. Beard
He knowing his father to be a resolute man, and punctual to his word, thought it impossible ever to reconcile him to the match, at which the young man began to consider what course to take, that he might not incur his fatherÕs displeasure, and by that means be disinherited from a good and extensive estate that he was sole heir to. The Cruel Husband; or, Dvonshire Tragedy
Whoever is unpunctual deserves that other people should reprove him for being unpunctual.
Martin is not the greatest of administrators, and he isn't punctual, but he doesn't bother about things like that.
Do they bother about punctuality in your job?
During service, Master Simon stood up in the pew, and repeated the responses very audibly; evincing that kind of ceremonious devotion punctually observed by a gentleman of the old school, and The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
He arrived punctually at four o'clock.
One of these was punctuality and woe betide anyone who arrived late in school without a very good reason for being so. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Joe brought professional standards: punctuality, discipline and a strong work ethic.
No American should need me to tell them about Amtrak and residents of Australia's largest city are almost beyond frustration with their dangerous and unpunctual trains too.
The following are the heads and principles of such an arrangement as we are decisively of opinion must be adopted for these purposes, viz. That, for making a provision for discharging the Nabob's just debts to the Company and individuals, (for the payment of which his Highness has so frequently expressed the greatest solicitude,) _the Nabob shall give soucar security for the punctual payment, by instalments_, into the The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation. New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective
He is punctual, he has a good attitude and people like him. Times, Sunday Times
He insists on regular attendance and punctuality.
I'm a very punctual person - I just can't stand being late for anything.
He's always very punctual. I'll see if he's here yet.
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. Blog De Ganz | Archive | January
Another complaint was the lack of punctuality over her period cycle, and the swelling over her tummy. Practical Aromatherapy
She looks at her watch and says, ‘Good, you are very punctual.’
All they ask is that their protégés be clean, punctual, polite and show willing. Times, Sunday Times
At length, as she united a final row of hooks and eyes, she found leisure to chide her, saying she was very naughty to be so unpunctual; that she looked even now the picture of incorrigible carelessness: and so Shirley did - but a very lovely picture of that tiresome quality. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
he is not a particularly punctual person
I was driving to Croydon one morning in my four-wheeled one-'oss chay, and just as I got to Lilleywhite, the blacksmith's, below Brixton Hill, they had thrown up a drain -- a 'gulph' I may call it -- across the road for the purpose of repairing the gas-pipe -- I was rayther late as it was, for our 'ounds are werry punctual, and there was nothing for me but either to go a mile and a half about, or drive slap over the gulph. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
His windows encompass most of his world; for the rest, there is the weekly Variety that his nephew, Ben, delivers punctually every Wednesday along with a week's provender.
In the report inspectors recognised the problems we have with poor accommodation and punctual starts to lessons arising from this.
Semblably Titus Livius writeth that, in the solemnization time of the Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Maintaining quantity, supply security and punctuality in delivery are also important to make the products marketable.
Customers have a right to expect a punctual train service and at Midland Mainline that is what we are working extremely hard to provide following a number of months of disruption on the rail network.
He slung it out in vigorous quotations from his pulpit, point blank at the unreality, and formalism, and pharisaism, and love of this present evil world, which too often underlies the most precise "churchmanship" and the most punctual church-going. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
Punctuality is the soul of business.
In primary schools, 62% of teachers now report unpunctuality occurring at least once a week, compared with 56% in 1996.
'Of course Michael won't be late; you know how punctual he always is,' she said with heavy irony.
We cannot guarantee the punctual arrival of trains in foggy weather.
This company is very strict about punctuality.
Discipline in all walks of life, punctuality, politeness and good manners are expected from the police constables and officers.

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