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What is "well-timed"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-timed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She took a sip of water during a well-timed pause, and waited for my reply.
▪ Wallace made a well-timed run through the midfield, collected the pass and scored with a low shot.
▪ Wyse's movement into the software market appears to be well-timed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another well-timed cover-drive beat the fielder and this time it reached the boundary.
▪ Distance A good, well-timed release action will return the club to the position it was in at address.
▪ His incursions into the line are always well-timed and his goal-kicking has been immaculate so far.
▪ Its formation at a time when moves are well-advanced to remove customs and other technical barriers throughout the Community is well-timed.
▪ The man took a well-timed opportunity to smile broadly, a smile that said everything if one knew how to read.
▪ With one well-timed joke, Gazzer would be able to make her fears look ridiculous.
Wiktionary
well-timed

a. Happening at an opportune or advantageous time.

WordNet
well-timed

  1. adj. done or happening at the appropriate or proper time; "a timely warning"; "with timely treatment the patient has a good chance of recovery"; "a seasonable time for discussion"; "the book's publication was well timed" [syn: timely, seasonable, well-timed(a), well timed(p)]

  2. adv. at an opportune time; "your letter arrived apropos" [syn: seasonably, timely, apropos]

Usage examples of "well-timed".

Also, Yun Yun could always be depended on to spice up any occasion with a handful of well-timed, persnickety barbs, and Lindsey wondered which innocent bystanders would be stung this evening.

Like the startling revelations of McVeigh's racing fuel purchases a year and-a-half after the fact, this well-timed ruse was engineered to resuscitate the government's rapidly deteriorating case.

Cleared for action, a ship of the line was open from bow to stern, and a well-timed bombardment through the poop and counter could change the gundecks into a slaughterhouse.

In other company, Ray might have been able to make a case for the ain't-broke-don't-fix- it ethic of the finely crafted song, or the sheer visceral impact of a well-timed power chord, but on this occasion it would have been like suddenly announcing he was a Jehovah's Witness and trying to flog Simon The Watchtower.

But the carnival of ambulance-chasing lawyers and senior citizens taking well-timed pratfalls in hope of hitting a different kind of jackpot really annoyed Shane.

Because of the low gravity, a few well-timed bursts on his jetpack kept him flying for kilometer after kilometer, zooming through the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of refracted light and multicolored clusters.

A well-timed stumble against a modestly dressed, middle-aged woman .