How to Use deadline in a Sentence

deadline

noun
Definition of deadlinenext
  • We had to hurry to meet the deadline.
  • The project was completed a week past its deadline.
  • She worked on her composition right up until the deadline.
  • They're working under a deadline.
  • The deadline for submitting college applications is April 19th.
  • The deadline for the district to file the appeal is Jan. 6.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The tax-payment deadline this year is April 18 for most taxpayers.
    — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The deadline to buy a ticket before the next drawing is 10 p.m. Friday.
    — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The deadline for public housing agencies is April 13, the agency said.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The trade deadline is Feb. 9, but depth doesn’t seem to be an issue with Williams back in the fold and playing consistently.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The deadline for Waste Management customers is through the second week of January.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The school began accepting applications on Aug. 1 with an early deadline of Nov. 1.
    — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Friday Congress is facing a December 20 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • If a player gets traded on Dec. 17 or later and the receiving team uses an exception to acquire him, his contract cannot get aggregated at the trade deadline.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The goal at the deadline shouldn’t be to make a move simply to make one.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
  • But the deadline in L.A. is decades away, scheduled for the 2040s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The first handover deadline was March 14 and the second was May 30.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
  • The deadline to file to for the New Hampshire primary is the same day, on Oct. 27.
    — Abby Cruz, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • To meet its deadline, San Diego would have to work more than three times as fast.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2023
  • With the trade deadline looming and the big league bullpen struggling, now might be the best time to do just that.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
  • If May 15 falls on a weekend, the protest deadline is the next business day.
    — Wesley Ratko, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Friday's deadline to fund the government is the first of two.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The deadline to register is the end of the business day on Monday, Oct. 7.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In seconds, all the quotes gathered before, and those to come, were lost in the fog of deadline war.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The two sides still have more than a month before a July 17 deadline.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • Any deal was always going to be via trade and the Heat has until the trade deadline.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • Prigozhin set May 10 as the deadline for the withdrawal of his fighters.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • McAfee agreed to postpone that deadline to Feb. 1 for Meadows and Clark.
    — Kate Brumback The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot is Thursday.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Clark’s lawyers asked a Georgia judge for more time to meet the deadlines in these three proceedings.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023

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