How To Use Eleventh hour In A Sentence

  • Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
  • At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
  • But in our neighborhood a highwayman was a myth, -- we had hardly ever even heard of one; and so, after no end of misgivings lest one or another lion in the way should after all compel the relinquishment of the excursion, literally at the eleventh hour they were fairly on their way. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
  • Megson and his advisers only discovered Imerman was involved at the eleventh hour.
  • Our pianist had fallen ill, and then, at the eleventh hour, when we thought we'd have to cancel the performance, Jill offered to replace him.
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  • The president's visit was called off at the eleventh hour.
  • With the manfly dead and his wife, Patricia Owens, about to be carted off to an insane asylum for his murder, Price and police inspector Herbert Marshall make the ghastly eleventh hour discovery of a flyman caught in a spiderweb in the garden. 31 Screams: Al Hedison
  • Backman's "wheelin' dealin'" lifestyle lands him with a prison sentence, which is unexpectedly truncated at an eleventh hour Presidential pardon for a CIA plan. The Broker
  • -- _Stuart_ was a great eleventh hour tip -- (why _eleventh_ hour I wonder? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892
  • `We have to wait and watch - until the fifty-ninth second of the eleventh hour, if you follow me. LOADED QUESTIONS
  • We only received the official signatures at the eleventh hour.
  • Lloyd learned how the ship had been "nipped;" how, after inconceivable toil, the members of the expedition had gained the land; how they had marched southward toward the Chuckch settlements; how, at the eleventh hour, the survivors, exhausted and starving, had been rescued by the steam whalers; how these whalers themselves had been caught in the ice, and how the survivors of the Freja had been obliged to spend another winter in the Arctic. A Man's Woman
  • The star recently confessed how he was almost driven to suicide at the height of his self-destructive phase - but he was saved at the eleventh hour by a priest.
  • But at the eleventh hour, anxious to complete, I resorted to transferring a photograph of a bitterroot bloom to fabric.
  • At least once or twice, most of us have procrastinated until the eleventh hour and then we rush to meet an obligation or responsibility.
  • More often than not, gift seekers step in and out of shops selling fancy wares, at the eleventh hour scratching their heads in confusion, not being able to choose anything in a state of hurry.
  • Brigade sent us some "buckshee" camels at the eleventh hour, or at worst we got permission to send some stuff by train, when it could be delivered in due course somewhere within reach. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
  • money became available at the eleventh hour
  • But the point that we made earlier is that this bill is actually a rewrite, because we had Supplementary Order Paper 107 lodged yesterday at the eleventh hour.
  • It was to be published/syndicated as a newspaper strip and at the eleventh hour sliced up and repasted together as a lead feature. Warner Bros Has Lost Krypton; Will Lose Superman in 2013 | /Film
  • You were re-recording and rewriting bits of the album beyond the eleventh hour. The Sun
  • At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.
  • Our pianist had fallen ill, and then, at the eleventh hour, when we thought we'd have to cancel the performance, Jill offered to replace him.
  • She looked properly concerned when he described how the film had been jostled from its place of victory at the eleventh hour. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • A week ago a national rail strike was called off at the eleventh hour when the management backed down over pensions.
  • Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Ulysses
  • A ball detent on the magazine follower proved to be the fix at the eleventh hour.
  • Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
  • And, suddenly, just as had happened to Michael Banks, at the eleventh hour the rhythm started to come.
  • Their plan was called off at the eleventh hour.
  • He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
  • He arrived there at the eleventh hour.
  • He arrived there at the eleventh hour.
  • The " little Chinese girl " was rescued from oblivion at the eleventh hour.
  • He postponed his trip at the eleventh hour.
  • At the eleventh hour the door was left slightly ajar once more.
  • Failure to participate in tournaments of such magnitude at the eleventh hour, he added, would be costly as the organisers demand heavy fines for inconveniencing them.
  • Their plan was called off at the eleventh hour.
  • At the eleventh hour the government decided that something had to be done.

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