How to Use our time in a Sentence

our time

noun
Definition of our timenext
  • And The Weeknd is the greatest pop star of our time, in my opinion.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 May 2024
  • The Death Eaters claimed we have been made to live in secret and now is our time.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Without a doubt, the full eclipse in the U.S. in 2017 was one of the most remarkable of our time.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Look at the state of the world since the beginning of our time here, and it’s never stopped.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • Based on our time with it, Ring is up to the challenge with its new Car Cam.
    — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The app is built on the back of the defining social-media empire of our time.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 13 July 2023
  • This is our time to check in with each other and get our blood flowing.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • One of the greatest hitters of our time is struggling to hit right now.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
  • During our time in Idaho, our meal at The Avery’s Brasserie was the best of our trip.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • It has since been described as one of the most historic images of our time.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2023
  • It was broadcast all around the world and became one of the iconic photos of our time.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • One of the most creative, original artists of our time.
    — Garret K. Woodward, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Whether the media of our time are meeting that need is an open and aching question.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • This is, of course, the strongest genius of our time and a specialist.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Climate change keeps me up at night as one of the most urgent issues of our time.
    — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Clicks and likes are not what will be inscribed on our gravestone when our time is done.
    — Larry Dvoskin, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Dolly Parton is a true icon and one of the greatest voices of our time.
    — Lauren Matthews, Country Living, 30 July 2023
  • And though Guts‘ pace is great so far, will people regard it as one of the greatest pop projects of our time?
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This is why my husband, Rand, calls school choice the civil rights issue of our time.
    — Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Amanda Seyfried may be one of the biggest and most glamorous actors of our time.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2023
  • When Miss Evan was 4 months old, we’d been told our time together would be short.
    — Lindzi Scharf, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • The cause of restoring the sanctity of life to the center of American law is the calling of our time.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • And so a lot of our time spent off the baseball field and outside of school would be watching films, quoting films.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Vacations and date nights, our time alone, is few and far between.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The bottom line: Storm survivors will need our time, money and support for years to come.
    — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The tension between these two is ripe with discord, and Jann, the go-for-your-dream hero, is very much a figure of our time.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Rob Lowe may have just answered one of the most important questions of our time.
    — EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The reality is that almost all of our time is spent anchored just off of land.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
  • Newsletter Food’s role in climate change has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our time.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 June 2024
  • So, like so much in our national life, decisions on the weighty matters of our time are left to judges.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2024

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