Sentence examples for a time when just from inspiring English sources

AT a time when just about every toy has a screen, buttons and batteries, the must-have diversion among elementary school children is positively primitive: a top.

Her 1967 song "Society's Child," written at age 14 about an interracial couple, spurred much controversy at a time when just mentioning such things was considered taboo.

In a time when just about everything is instantly available via the internet, Davies is interested in seeing how people react to new images of stars.

One explanation for the widespread appeal of ostensibly artisanal products is that owning handmade, small-batch goods conveys status and exclusivity at a time when just about anything mass-produced can be purchased down the street at Costco.

There was a time when just about anything — dumb commercial entertainment, ugly clothes, the weird dishes your grandmother used to serve — could be appreciated and appropriated in quotation marks.

Meanwhile, at a time when just about everyone knows someone who is unemployed or who owes more on a home loan than the house is worth, keeping extra cash someplace more liquid than a mortgage seems like a safer approach.

"I lost all my friends because there was a time when I just sat back and I just didn't want nobody to bother me," he said.

And there was a time when I just did food".

It was a time when everything just fell in.

"That was a time when baseball just takes over," Jones said.

After all, we are living at a time when we just can't leave bad enough alone.