HOURS in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for HOURS, such as:
1. That clock ran down hours ago.
2. They sometimes argue off for hours.
3. We're four hours ahead of New York.
4. She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
5. Trains roared in and out of the town at all hours.
2. They sometimes argue off for hours.
3. We're four hours ahead of New York.
4. She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
5. Trains roared in and out of the town at all hours.
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Meanings and Examples of HOURS
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hours
n. a period of time assigned for work
n. an indefinite period of time
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Ethan, looking slowly about the kitchen, said to himself with a shudder that in a few hours he would be returning to it alone.
2 If Gerald once got on the subject of war and secession, it would be hours before he relinquished it.
3 She wanted him and she had only a few hours in which to get him.
4 Trains roared in and out of the town at all hours.
5 She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, and she prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
6 They fussed about her food and her hours for taking afternoon naps and for taking carriage rides.
7 Melanie and Pittypat had gone to sleep hours before, but Scarlett lay awake in the warm darkness, her heart heavy and frightened in her breast.
8 Not until hours later did she recall that he had not kissed her on the lips.
9 The past week with its shimmering, dreamlike beauty, its crowded hours of happiness, was gone.
10 Melanie, stemming the tide of fear again and again, through endless hours, was telling herself: "He can't be dead."
11 In the early morning hours before the noises of the town awoke, the cannon at Kennesaw Mountain could be heard faintly, far away, a low dim booming that might have passed for summer thunder.
12 They could hear the rumblings of the batteries, see the smoke which rolled like low-hanging clouds above the trees, but for hours no one knew how the battle was going.
13 By late afternoon the first news came, but it was uncertain, contradictory, frightening, brought as it was by men wounded in the early hours of the battle.
14 And as the long hours dragged past, they had their answer, an answer that made them look whitely into each other's eyes.
15 Sometimes it takes all day having a baby and I just couldn't let the doctor sit here for hours when all those poor boys need him so much.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
2 We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
3 The next few hours passed by in a whirl of activity.
4 To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.
5 In youth the hours are golden in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden.
6 That clock ran down hours ago.
7 We're four hours ahead of New York.
8 Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.
9 They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours.
10 I spent hours doing that calculation and I still got the answer wrong.
11 Apply the suntan cream liberally to exposed areas every three hours and after swimming.
12 They sometimes argue off for hours.
13 An argument ensued, with various band members joining in and haranguing Simpson and his girlfriend for over two hours.
14 Their research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day.
15 Aim to arrive at check-in at least two hours before departure.