Sentence examples for devastating timing from inspiring English sources

This year, what remained of Matthew slammed ashore with devastating timing in early October, arriving at the height of the harvest and the opening of oyster season, a crucial few weeks for the Gullah fishermen who support themselves on shellfish.

It would have been hard to top Maggie Steed, the actress I saw in that role, who performed with both rueful dignity and devastating timing.

Gayle has 23 from 13 balls; Charles has 14 from 17. 6th over: West Indies 47-0 (Charles 14, Gayle 28) Gayle flicks Broad over midwicket for four with devastating timing.

But the timing was devastating.

"The timing is devastating," said a top adviser to Mr. Sharon.

(Combs's comic timing is devastating; he should do more acting).

While the loss was devastating to Republicans, the timing was convenient.

BAGHDAD, May 17 -- With stunning brazenness, pinpoint timing and devastating force, the suicide car bomber who killed the head of Iraq's Governing Council on Monday gave shape to a feeling among Iraqi and U.S. officials and common citizens that the country is almost unmanageable.

Only Platini himself knows why, nine years after leaving the job, he suddenly invoiced for it, but the timing – February 2011 – is devastating.

Its timing brought home the devastating consequences of the Palestinian leadership's endless equivocations on terrorism.

Whatever the merits of the suit, the timing could not be more devastating to Ms. Wachner.