The latter paid no heed to her surroundings, but her progress was timed to the needs of those who followed her.
The attacks must be so timed that he throws them in piecemeal or fails to reach the point mainly threatened.
He was timed to the fraction of a second, and when the exposed half of the film was blocked off with paper and the unexposed half run through, he acted out his part on the left side of the table, to this time schedule.
The period of oscillation of the antennae circuit, and of the spark gap circuit aretimed to be exactly the same.
To an outsider the noises sound like a riot or a street fair rather than a theatrical performance timed to the fraction of a second in which the movement of an eye counts in the final effect.
Each scene is timed to the second so that the pantomime will tell the story but not tire the spectators with useless repetition.
Hardly a maternal heart within the four seas could, in such circumstances, have helped being irritated at that ill-timed betrayal of feeling for a new woman.
The hour chosen for the ceremony by Thomasin and Wildeve had been so timed as to enable her to escape the awkwardness of meeting her cousin Clym, who was returning the same morning.
I must say, in all justice, that much of this was illtimed and ill advised.
The critics of the future will judge the movement as ill-timed and fraught with little good and much ill to the Confederacy.
He has found his orbit, and stays in it; he has timed himself, and adheres to his periods.
Why were you so silent, and why now are you so ill-timed in speaking!
This was fired with a loaded chamber, and timed from the time of this first shot until the last shot.
Do you remember offhand what the stopwatch timed us at--I think we did it twice, is that correct?
Mines," said Captain Jack quietly, "timed to explode simultaneously with the bombs ashore.
Half a dozen bombs scattered about and timed nicely, and there won't be a German submarine base at this time tomorrow.
Our ex-lord mayor had high ambitions, dating from the year of glory onwards; so that nothing could be more prudent or well-timed that this ideal aristocratic connection.
They used to forget that their masters were not always in a humour to be tickled by a joke, and a sound drubbing was very often the only reward of their ill-timed merriment.
He had well timedhis rush, for Bulger's musket was at the far end of its pendulum swing, but the old seaman saw his danger in time.
At these times he betook himself to Buxton, or Bath, or some other spa, and so timed his return that he was always good tempered on rent day, much to the relief of his tenants.
He had no idea what the time was: Shaik Mahomet had the water clock, with which he timed the watches; and Desmond's could not yet be due.
But there was no longer any attempt at ill--timed jesting on the part of the bar, which was but bad taste at the best on so solemn an occasion.
The wise men not only said the glacier moved, but they timed its movement.
Blascom had timed his arrival to a nicety, for Murphy was on his way from the toolshed to the station to await the coming of the train, the smoke from which could be seen on the eastern horizon.
Tex broke ground with two swift steps and then, unexpectedly slipping to one side and forward in two perfectly timed motions, swung a rigid, bent arm as the charging miner went blunderingly past.
Others were timed and trained up to't, but thou Didst thy swift years in piety outgrow.
So that many causes contributed to augment the unpleasant surprise occasioned by the ill-timed discovery of this unfortunate copy of verses.
The ill-timed sarcasm caused the statuesque warders to grin, but a tear stood in the eye of more than one of the bridegroom's comrades in adversity, even though they were desperate characters, hardened by crime.
Running his finger down it, he saw that the train was timed to arrive at Quevy at half-past four, and at Mons at 5:02.
The attacking force rushed up overnight and appeared as a regulated tidal wave of men, their pace timed under cover of curtains of fire which they hugged close, then over the German trenches and on into the fort.
The units of the two armies might have been wired to a single switchboard with heartbeats under blue and khaki jackets timed together in the final expression of entente cordiale become entente furieuse.
Other villages, equally passive and derelict, were being submitted to the same systematic pounding, which was like timed hammer-beats.
There is a slight resemblance in some points to Godwin's style, especially to this expression of the feelings of the victim; but they are exactly timed to suspend the narrative just where it ought to stay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "timed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
