How to Use opportune in a Sentence

opportune

adjective

• There isn't a more opportune time to invest in the stock market.
• This would seem to be an opportune time for the Sox to right the ship and make up ground.
  — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Ravens may have caught the Steelers at an opportune time.
  — Branson Wright, cleveland.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• The reemergence of Woods and Kupp comes at an opportune time.
  — Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• Rio is smooth and knows how to use runs at the most opportune moments.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Snow days in New York City are an opportune time to show off your style.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2022
• Someone is bound to put on the right hedge or trade at an opportune time.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2019
• Wait for a more opportune time to nurture dreams and ideas.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2019
• Our backs did a great job of tackling at opportune times and keeping the play in front of us.
  — Marco Cummings, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• This might be the easiest and most opportune time to buy a Peloton for the rest of this year.
  — Alexis Benveniste, Men's Health, 11 Oct. 2022
• The concert comes at an opportune time for Ohio City Singers.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2020
• BofA sees this as an opportune time to load up on stocks and hold off on bonds.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2020
• But there could scarcely have been a less opportune moment to press the point.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• The remaking of his swing couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
  — Andrew Hussey, Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2018
• But the late 1980s turned out to be an opportune moment to get into the market.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
• The pandemic proved to be an opportune time to change course.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021
• The seeds were dormant waiting for the opportune time to spring into life in that bare patch.
  — OregonLive.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• This would be an opportune time to think about these problems at once.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2022
• With an opportune matchup against Turnbull and Castillo on the mound, this is a game the Reds should win by more than one run.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 July 2020
• Kairos the god has given us the concept of a kairos: an opportune moment.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• This is an opportune time for guys to try and go find a bigger role for themselves.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 23 Mar. 2021
• Williams led the Celtics in scoring for the first time in his career with a 7 for 18 3-point outing that couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
• So in that spirit, here's how 2020 has revealed itself to me to be an opportune time to date.
  — Kimberly Nario, refinery29.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• Is right now the best time, the most opportune time, as far as the greater ambitions of the stunt community?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2024
• Brown is in a good place at a seemingly opportune time.
  — Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• Now would seem an opportune time to take full advantage of that.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• More turnovers equaled more opportune looks at the rim, and the Generals capitalized on the way to a nine-point win.
  — oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2022
• The defense forced three fourth-down stops, shutting down the Stoneham run game at opportune times.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• Rather, this is an opportune time to inject some color.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
• There was Isaac, a boy who carried around a miniature shofar in his pocket and blew it at inopportune times, though arguably there are few opportune times to blow a ram’s horn in modern life.
  — Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024