How to Use the time has come in a Sentence

the time has come

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Definition of the time has comenext
  • Now 20 years gone by, the time has come for the Hub to bid the Quebec kid adieu.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • In my view, the time has come to do the same for New England’s stone walls.
    — Robert M. Thorson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The year is 1968, and the social upheaval of the time has come even to Cold Storage.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Here's how to decide when the time has come for a bigger home.
    — Mia Taylor, Parents, 1 Dec. 2023
  • For the first of the October zodiac signs, the time has come.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
  • And now, the time has come to say goodbye to your 9-5 grind and enter your golden years era.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the time has come to tackle the ever-growing to-do list.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 19 May 2022
  • Even etiquette experts say the time has come to talk about tipping.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
  • Okay, the time has come to reveal the miracles that Varley performed for the Dankworth-Finch ball.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 June 2024
  • But now, in 2022, the time has come to give it a name: elevator-pitch horror.
    — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Speaker: Now, the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • One way or another, the time has come for Bryant to announce his future plans.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The idea was floated years ago and dropped, but the time has come to rename the third U.S. Open stadium, the Grandstand, after her.
    — Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Now, though, the time has come to return to the usual routine of deadlines, meetings and online calls.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The explosive two-guard took a back seat to DeRozan when the latter arrived last year, but the time has come to get back into the front seat along with him.
    — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Balto asserts that the time has come for Congress to ensure less gaming of the system.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • But Russell said that the time has come to put herself out there and pursue her musical dreams.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Perhaps the time has come to demand something similar from the types of work that take up so much of our time today.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
  • With crucial fall film festivals approaching, the time has come to look ahead at the 2023 Oscar race.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Get out your sunscreen and swimsuits because summer is here, which means the time has come for artists to release a slew of warm-weather tunes.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 28 May 2024
  • Maybe the time has come to transition to another signal-caller in 2024.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 10 Apr. 2023
  • He's never been one to shy away from mining his own background for a good story, and now the time has come to gather many of those stories into one.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
  • As the surveys and protests in Tokyo show, many Japanese people seem to feel that the time has come for a new story, in which leaders address climate change with open eyes.
    — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • If the company cannot meet its own growth goals, no matter how lofty, then the time has come for bulls to re-evaluate their growth expectations.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • President Joe Biden’s speech was poetry, but the time has come for prose, best delivered in private.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The community is very grateful that the time has come to reckon with this part of Los Angeles history, Woo said.
    — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The Twisted Sister singer says the time has come to stand up to those who would use his band’s most famous song to promote conspiracy theories.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But the time has come for the Kentucky senator, after his long, impressive run, to make the decision to step aside from leadership.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Royals’ staff had the fewest strikeouts in the A.L. last season while issuing the most walks; the time has come, Picollo said, to modernize the team’s infrastructure.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Now the time has come for Ollie to become director, with oversight over all Film4’s day to day activities.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 May 2022

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