Sentence examples for the customary time from inspiring English sources

New words, new pronunciations and new meanings were being born by then without the customary time for incubation.

The early episodes do not allude to drinking or other hedonistic behavior; on the other hand the girls were sent to rusticate for 30 days, the customary time for rehab.

This is because in the landscape settings where SSST is typically assumed, and over the customary time scales involved, rates of denudation and weathering are very small compared to regolith thickness, such that imbalances do not materially affect results of calculations.

Until we know that the playwright has collapsed or gone in with the piranha, until we know that's all behind, we shall innocently assume that all is ahead, and render thanks, at the customary thanks, at the customary time and in the customary way, for the previlege of a walk-on part in the show.

When the customary time came for Shatner to turn the tables on the roasters, they were already cowering, like a boy who throws a rock at a car only to mouth "Oh shi... .. when the copper gets out of the driver's side.

She gets in, and while she might be polite to her chauffeur, she could also say absolutely nothing, and the driver would take her home, open the door to let her out, and be seen next waiting outside the home at the customary time to leave.

A one-way trip into the future is the staple of the suspended-animation story, the device behind the Buck Rogers stories and a host of consequent tales in which a hero of the present-day escapes the customary time-bound limits of human mortality.

"In practice they were deserted at 9am, but seething from 12 noon to 2pm, because the French go on taking their meals at the customary times.

At the time, I followed the customary Times practice of relying on the supervising desk editor — in this case, most often the Washington editor and the foreign editor — to make sure the sourcing on the stories they handled was correct.

Talk story about the sudden departure of many White House senior officials from the Clinton Administration....The customary time for setting off after fame and riches is the period right after reelection.

The New Yorker, November 17, 1997 P. 37 Talk story about the sudden departure of many White House senior officials from the Clinton Administration....The customary time for setting off after fame and riches is the period right after reelection.