Sentence examples for were timing from inspiring English sources

More important, you suspect, were timing issues.

Of course, as with Liszt, the band's talent, charisma and showmanship were key, but two crucial extrinsic factors were timing and television.

Vice-president Dick Cheney told Fox News that the insurgents in Iraq were timing attacks according to the US election calendar.

Among these last were timing (he arrived relatively late in the progress of the war) and what seems to have been a great capacity for friendship.

I remember eating a slice of ham so ribbony and translucent that you could bird-watch through it, and wondering whether couples across America were timing their childbirths to synch with Temple's death.

Out for his run, he cuts out part of his ordinary route to make the paparazzi think he's faster than he is, just in case they were timing him.

One is timing.

The first is timing.

He's timing it.

"It's timing.

The answer is timing.