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Hour
"Hour" in a Sentence (27 examples)
I have to go shopping. I'll be back in an hour.
I have so much work that I will stay for one more hour.
At this hour, there is incredible traffic.
You look tired. You ought to rest for an hour or two.
You only started this job an hour ago.
You should allow an hour to go to the airport.
The express train is an hour faster than the local.
I can walk to school in half an hour.
It takes us half an hour to walk to school.
The opening address alone lasted one hour.
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Holonyms: day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond
Near-synonym: microcentury (humorous approximation)
I spent an hour at lunch.
There's a bus at 20 past the hour.
We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.
Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
The hour grows late and I must go home.
By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
I asked my manager for more hours.
The shop wasn't giving me enough hours so I started searching for a second job.
This place is an hour away from where I live.
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