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How to use in the nick of time in a sentence

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Sam and Flick dived aside in the nick of time, just before the entire wooden shelf splintered against the floor.
However, several colleagues had learned of the plot and came just in the nick of time to prevent the man from depressurizing the chamber.
They pulled me out of the water just in the nick of time, or my kayak paddler would put his kayak in between me and an oncoming tiger snake.
Conveniently, there were other people around, and I was rescued in the nick of time.
I was, though, lucky enough to get into a National Guard unit in the nick of time, about a day before I was drafted.
Roland, meanwhile, lands in the nick of time to beat the enemy Saracen Sarwegur and save the city and all of France.
The film, a black-and-white comedy about a rock band going AWOL in northern Ontario, was finished just in the nick of time.
He ran with the ball and slid in front of the base feet first to tag out the hustling Izturis in the nick of time.
A stone from outside shatters the glass in the window frame in the nick of time, before the gas flooding the room can have its intended effect.
I managed to slam on the brakes in the nick of time to avoid getting into an accident, tyres screeching and all.
Caddick's arrival was in the nick of time, for the rest of England's attack was as blunt as a bargepole.
My intervention came in the nick of time, and tested the very limits of his fistfight brinkmanship.
As the wagons were corralled into an even tighter circle at the Crescent, the Trust arrived like the cavalry in the nick of time.
Riding bicycles, Hank's agents rescue Arthur and Hank in the nick of time.
Fortunately, however, they also, just in the nick of time, warned the person who had hidden me among them, and hence they saved my life.
It wasn't a particularly tricky job, the spare part didn't have to be imported from Outer Mongolia and you weren't extremely lucky he caught it in the nick of time.
She was able to complete the scene and fly the unexposed film out of Lebanon in the nick of time.
The upshot is that the error was fixed, in the nick of time.
His house was swept away in the flood and he was rescued in the nick of time, clinging to the roof of the house as it was swept down the river.
I managed to hitch a ride on Josh's airplane just in the nick of time.
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Some friendly forest ranger just happened along in the nick of time, and used his rifle on the yowler.
But Aunt Plessington had made him a Haigite, which is one of the fiercer kinds of hygienist, just in the nick of time.
How that lowland Scot came to the rescue just in the nick of time is soon told.
Not that it very much matters, because some one always turns up in the nick of time to help us out of our scrapes.
Burbage learned to anticipate this by yielding in the nick of time.
We got through in the nick of time, and shall we jeopard what we've gained?
Brave, courageous Venetian sea-dog, you are just in the nick of time!
It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance.
The doctor came in the nick of time, and soon brought her to.
A new interdependent form of civilization was about to be developed, and the telephone arrived in the nick of time to make this new civilization workable and convenient.
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