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UK
/ˈaʊə/
]
[ US /ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊɹ/ ]
NOUN
-
a special and memorable period
it was their finest hour -
clock time
the hour is getting late -
distance measured by the time taken to cover it
its just 10 minutes away
we live an hour from the airport -
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
the job will take more than an hour
How To Use hour In A Sentence
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
- Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
- As it was, we spent a couple of sweltering hours there and left.
- I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
- Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly.
- Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
- The two-hour show was televised on the national network so the whole country could watch.