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Example sentences for "high time"

  • It is high time to make an example of you.

  • If it is as we suppose, it is high time to make a strong example.

  • It is high time to leave off being such a dreadful dowdy.

  • It is high time, for the sake of humanity, that a stop were put to this enormity.

  • It is high time to make it a general rule, that all the ship's store of spirits should be carried in bottles.

  • It's high time to think of getting under way.

  • It's an old stick, and it's high time a better stood where it does.

  • And so I may say to you, my friends, it is high time for us to awake out of sleep.

  • And it is high time for us, while all the nations of Europe are tottering and crumbling round us, to awake out of sleep on this matter.

  • Come," she said, hastily, "it is high time.

  • It is high time for me to teach these newspaper scribblers another lesson, and they shall have it!

  • Have the trunks brought up at once, for it is high time for me to dress.

  • Is it not true that it is high time for us to think of our property, and to pack up and bury our valuables?

  • Besides it is high time to introduce our readers to a friend of Dr.

  • We have said so much of the climate, that it is high time to add a few words about its results.

  • Keif thinks it high time to mediate between the vainglorious Frenchman and the incensed Sir John.

  • But now it is high time to draw the line.

  • She will have to put up with him, all day long, as soon as they are married, which it is high time now to settle.

  • It is now, however, high time to think of our march to Mexico.

  • Similar and even severer speeches were in every one's mouth respecting Cortes' fifths, until the latter began to consider it high time to pacify these daring spirits.

  • It is high time I were on my way, if I am to leave this place to-day.

  • Upon the anxious face of Von Halber was also to be seen, Fly now, it is high time!

  • It is evident that you need looking after, and it is high time I undertook your society manners.

  • Yes, high time is it that we were clear of the town.

  • For these reasons do I reaffirm that it is high time to yoke a rascal to the shafts.

  • It is high time, and I am sure you have talked enough.

  • It is high time,' said the man on the box.

  • It is high time, if we mean to reach the chateau in time for supper.

  • As I had faithfully set the Count's true interest before him, and dissuaded him from undertaking an affair of which he was by no means capable, I thought it high time to think of my own affairs.

  • And then we thought it high time to correct them, lest the common people should think they did it by authority.

  • Surely then it is high time that we be looking out for the coming of the Lord, high time that we be watching with our loins girt and our lamps burning, and we ourselves as those that wait for their Lord.

  • I have already repeatedly mentioned the automata I made, and it is high time to describe the nature of the articles intended to be used in my performances.

  • I thought it high time to beat a retreat, in the fear of being buried beneath this shapeless mass.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cups boiling; high consideration; high frequency; high importance; high moral; high northern; high power; high reputation; high rock; high schools; high state; high temperatures; high tension; high trees; high wages; high walls; higher infant mortality and death rates; higher kind; higher planes; higher position; higher sphere; highest good; highly cultivated; highly developed; highly sensitive; well developed