Sentence examples for makes good time from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Good time.

If you make good time on a journey, you manage to travel faster than you expected.

Exact(3)

Sure enough, he makes good time to 53rd and Seventh.

Tour manager Brian Wilson stands his dutiful guard outside the van, making absolutely sure the band makes good time and arrives in southern California in time for load-in and soundcheck.

However, if it's a long roll to the gate, or if the person pushing you makes good time and rushes to get you to a plane on time, it's a nice gesture to show your appreciation by tipping them anywhere from a couple of dollars to $5".

Similar(56)

He has made good time.

And I had made good time skinning up the trail.

My mother said, "We're making good time".

There is no traffic, and we make good time.

("I made good time," he tells the army sergeant).

We were both gripped by the desire to make good time.

He was on his way from Boston to Baltimore, and had been making good time.

"You'd make good time coming out of Sligo, normally," Bill Knott said.

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