In-the-nick-of-time Sentence Examples

in-the-nick-of-time

  • They arrived after a night march, in the nick of time.

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  • My friends did all they could to excite my curiosity by hints and half-spelled sentences which they pretended to break off in the nick of time.

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  • Stranded on the far side of the galaxy and seventy years' travel from home, there was no Starfleet to watch her back or come to the rescue in the nick of time.

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