How to Use window of opportunity in a Sentence

window of opportunity

noun phrase
  • There’s a window of opportunity for these storms to be severe with gusty winds and hail (mainly to the east).
    Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Still, there is now a rare window of opportunity to begin winding down the war.
    April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The resumption of talks also comes against a ticking clock on the window of opportunity to shoot any new TV episodes or movies before the year ends.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Yet there are fears the delay in Western aid has opened a narrow window of opportunity for Vladimir Putin.
    Elliott Goat, The Week Uk, theweek, 15 May 2024
  • The space agency had only a short window of opportunity to salvage the mission.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Figueroa then turned his attention to the family dog, which gave the mother a window of opportunity to run to a neighbor’s home and call 911, police said.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And a shaky cease-fire leaving only a small window of opportunity.
    ABC News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The window of opportunity to enter the playoffs is closing fast.
    Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The window of opportunity to eat at Cap One: Almost all concessions close before a game is over, save for a single Aramark stand on each of the three levels.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • If so, act quickly, because this window of opportunity will be brief.
    Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Keep an open mind and show compassion; a window of opportunity will appear.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • Your input will open a window of opportunity to engage in something that interests you.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • Bricker sees a window of opportunity for executives to build trust in AI.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Iran is now in a weak position, and Israel has a window of opportunity in an otherwise very difficult year.
    Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2024
  • Their window of opportunity inches closer to shut with each passing game.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Elon Musk has left open a window of opportunity for incumbents looking to catch up, having launched his last new passenger vehicle — the Model Y — in 2020.
    Stefan Nicola, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • Beijing, too, likely sees a window of opportunity that won’t stay open forever.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
  • While sizing is critical, the urgency of need and the window of opportunity are also crucial factors.
    Columbia Business School - The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The later time, pushed from 4 p.m., was decided in hopes that decreasing the amount of hours that trash is left outside before being collected would give rats a smaller window of opportunity to go after it.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Lowering your voice and praising others will open a window of opportunity.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • There’s still a window of opportunity over the next couple of days for another bidder, perhaps Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos, to top the record bid.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • When artillery cannot cover infantry, the troops must wait for a window of opportunity to evacuate casualties.
    Ivana Kottasova, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • This presents a rare window of opportunity for ambitious firms to move away from a reactive, high-risk approach and instead adopt a proactive, people-first approach to growing their businesses.
    Jennifer Lee, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The window of opportunity is closing, and with the potential for an 11th-hour intervention by the Biden administration still in play, the future availability of these models hangs in the balance.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Russia is trying to exploit this window of opportunity, stepping up its assaults across the east and now threatening to open a new front by attacking Ukrainian positions along the northern border outside the city of Kharkiv.
    Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • This offers them a narrow window of opportunity to create guidelines to prevent the most dangerous advances and applications of AI.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The death of the mercenary group’s leader has created a window of opportunity in the Central African Republic for Western powers to offer an alternative.
    Elian Peltier Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But with Ukraine’s army under pressure along several points on the front line and facing ammunition and manpower shortages, the Russian military may have sensed a window of opportunity.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But that small window of opportunity was shut down the minute Hamas militants paraglided into Israeli territory.
    Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This decline in asset prices, coupled with stagnant wage growth and rising living costs, has created a unique window of opportunity for aspiring homeowners and investors alike.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024

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