How to Use a race against time in a Sentence

a race against time

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• Still, the district and the refuge are in a race against time.
  — Herald and News, oregonlive, 15 June 2021
• Treatment to clear the blood of its grip is also a race against time.
  — New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
• In many ways, Cantrell’s life has always been a race against time.
  — Jared Beasley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• What happens next becomes a race against time to save each tiny life.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• And the trio is in a race against time as the people who knew Jan start to die.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The work is costly and the water provider is in a race against time and the next megafire.
  — AZCentral.com, 21 June 2022
• So city and county officials are in a bit of a race against time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• For their part, rescuers understood their work to be a race against time.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• Leaphorn is brought there in a race against time to find a missing Navajo girl.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026
• There’s even more drama to come though, because James’ race is a race against time.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
• That said, Ukraine and its Western allies are in a race against time.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
• But for supporters of Lai, the campaign to free him is a race against time.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
• This year, your special present is a race against time to stop a man from killing himself and his family!
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 July 2024
• Barrel racing, the event that has defined so much of Yates’ life, is a race against time.
  — Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026
• To many, mapping Titanic and saving its finds is a race against time.
  — Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
• But following that trail of evidence is also a race against time.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
• So begins a race against time to preemptively solve her own murder.
  — Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• Milicevic’s case presented a unique challenge and a race against time.
  — Melissa Karns, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
• The latency in detection makes treatment for this cancer a race against time.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
• What’s the Scooooop started delivering ice cream sundaes, a race against time and heat.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• What should have been a routine job turned into a race against time, technology and human endurance.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
• The experience with Russia shows how sanctions can turn into a race against time.
  — Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017
• For homeowners, getting money before the foreclosure went through could be a race against time.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• Rescue groups, which have been working nonstop since Monday, have fanned out across the country in a race against time to save lives.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Werfel has been in a race against time to show how improvements to the agency can benefit taxpayers.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• But with the killer inching ever closer to home, Jeanette and the team are in a race against time to untangle the web of secrets.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
• Now, as a new storm barrels toward eastern Canada, the community is in a race against time to save it.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• To be clear, purchasing carbon credits alone will not quell the criticism faced by the billionaire singer amid a race against time.
  — Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Given that the time from infection to death usually takes about a week, Rose finds herself in a race against time to break the cycle.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• But the hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025