How to Use deadline in a Sentence

deadline

noun
  • 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.
  • Hardaway said bills face an initial deadline of Tuesday.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The amendment gives the council a chance to certify a redistricted map by a new deadline of May 15.
    Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Like the popular athlete of the week ballots, voters may cast a ballot once an hour until the 2 p.m. deadline on Fridays.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Having said, my understanding is the Panthers do intend to tweak the blue line between now and the March 7 trade deadline.
    Pierre Lebrun, The Athletic, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Another name that has been floated as a potential player to watch before the trade deadline is Hawks forward John Collins.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The deadline to submit a request is 11:59 p.m. Sunday, and trash will be picked up Monday or Tuesday.
    Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Republican lawmakers — and some county leaders, too — are now proposing moving up the deadline for voters to turn over early ballots to election officials.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 2 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
  • Because of that, the bullpen is likely moving up on the Dodgers’ trade deadline shopping list.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • But Parson doesn’t seem too concerned by the tight deadline.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2024

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