hour

[ UK /ˈa‍ʊ‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a special and memorable period
    it was their finest hour
  2. clock time
    the hour is getting late
  3. distance measured by the time taken to cover it
    its just 10 minutes away
    we live an hour from the airport
  4. a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
    the job will take more than an hour
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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.
  • The two-hour show was televised on the national network so the whole country could watch.
  • May each hour be a happy one on this special day.Love is always my gift to you for today and every day.
  • For Brown, visiting Gill at South Fork is a six-hour schlep that he's managed only three times.
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