How To Use O'clock In A Sentence

She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
Lisa called Malone at seven o'clock next morning, right on time; when she named a time, one could set the GPO clock by her. MURDER SONG
The children were bedded at ten o'clock
Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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She was rarely astir later than 7 o'clock.
Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring.
He had to bring forward an 11 o'clock meeting so that he could get to the funeral on time.
It was six o'clock in the morning and we had just touched down in Karachi airport.
And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and most all went back from on this Side of the river and General Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce General Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,
'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness. Robert Elsmere
It was already nearly eight o'clock.
The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Boyhood in Norway
At seven o'clock the night nurse came in to relieve her.
It was about 10 o'clock when a murmur went through the crowd as the low drone of an aircraft was heard in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't leave the office until eight o'clock last night.
Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
At sharp five o'clock th 'rivolution begun. Th' sthreets was dinsely packed with busy journalists, polis, sojers, an 'fash'nably dhressed ladies who come down fr'm th' Chang's All Easy in motocycles. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
The delicatessen closes at nine o'clock.
The train arrived at exactly 8 o'clock.
The thing is, my parents like me to be home by 10 o'clock.
Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
The fireworks begin at eight o'clock precisely.
They talked on and on until four o'clock in the morning.
On April 4th at about 4 o'clock in the evening, the Dupleix anchored in Pondicherry harbour. Aurchlives, Aehton, and April flower
The meeting will begin at ten o'clock prompt.
The day shift arrives [ arrive ] at eight o'clock.
By nine o'clock, the restaurant was humming.
It's ten o'clock by the kitchen clock.
As the offense team monitored the threat rings we were flying through, the copilot saw a missile at our 4 o'clock.
The shot is there, but it has to hit his front rock at 11 o'clock, exactly, to hit this back rock.
The mist shrouding the valley had lifted by eight o'clock.
It's now five o'clock, only an hour to go before his book launch.
I invited him for eight o'clock, but he didn't show up until nine-thirty.
I'll pick you up at 7 o'clock.
The 3 o'clock train arrived on the dot.
I called his hungover ass at 8 o'clock this morning. Chicagojo Diary Entry
It was ten o'clock at night, but there wasn't much chance of a rest.
At ten o'clock the movie ended. Christianity Today
It's five minutes after one o'clock.
The fire occurred at approx. 2 o'clock, when a spark from a fire disposing of waste materials ignited a number of buckets containing paint thinner.
And at eight o'clock in the evening, every single one of those eateries is closed. Just Back from the Emerald City
The ferry leaves for France at one o'clock.
We sat drinking our Mojitos in a new bar in Soho, which had appealed to us thanks to its promise of a two-for-one happy hour until ten o'clock.
I have been on the road since five o'clock this morning and I'm really tired.
She proposes an exchange of contracts at two o'clock.
according to my watch, it is already 2 o'clock.
We've been waiting here since two o'clock.
The umbilicus was relocated, defatted and sutured with 4-0 PDS sutures at the 2, 4, 8 and 10 o'clock positions to create an innie.
I used to start yapping then and I'd still be yapping at five o'clock at night.
The eastern slopes of Erebus were violet at first, and then they were bathe in rosy pink alpenglow and, between two and three o'clock, when the sun rose above WindVane Hill, they became sunflower yellow. Terra Incognita
The address that Rod had been given was a 20 mile drive away and it was not until nearly three o'clock that he cruised slowly past the terraced houses where he had been told to find the car.
Believe it or not, two of RTE's five most popular programmes are the nightly weather reports, while the Nine O'Clock News makes it to the top ten four times a week.
four-o'clock tea" rather blotted out one of the prettiest features of the English tea, that of the graceful garment the _tea gown_. Manners and Social Usages
I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
By eleven o'clock we were all tired so we knocked it on the head.
`I was picturing some French Canadian with five o'clock shadow. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
We train in the morning at six o'clock, every morning in the camp at home and here as well.
I see his ministerial car waiting for him at 10 o'clock every night - whoosh, he is off into the night in his chauffeur-driven car!
The native four-o'clock, also known as showy four-o'clock, is a great plant to add to your dryland Garden.
The schoolmaster requested a meeting at nine o'clock in the morning.
Some fifteen minutes later, the public address system announced boarding for the eleven o'clock shuttle through gate four. BLACK EAGLES
From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
Left his lodgings at ten o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Time "whizzed" by and there they were again at three o'clock and climbing. Friedrichshafen - March 18, 1944
It's quite dark,it must be after 8 o'clock.
We'll arrive in Boston at 4 o'clock local time.
II. ii.324 (244,8) [Eleven o'clock] Ford should rather have said _ten o'clock_: the time was between ten and eleven; and his impatient suspicion was not likely to stay beyond the time. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Put the alarm clock on for 7 o'clock.
By six o'clock they were invisible, both from the road and anywhere else, protected by layers of brushwood. BARRACUDA 945
It was getting on for two o'clock.
Unless you were a hotel resident, it was more or less impossible to drink legally outside the home after 10 o'clock at night.
The main act will come on at about ten o'clock.
It was so hot that I didn't get off till three o'clock.
On Monday morning, they started out for the motorway at the unusually early hour of ten o'clock.
After viewing the mitfere, or cistern, and batteries at Mazagan, we mounted at four o'clock, and arrived at Azamor at seven o'clock P.M., pitched the tents in a large spacious fondaque, or caravansera, in the centre of the town. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
Scenes like this should only be shown after the 9 o'clock watershed.
At eight o'clock in the morning 20 families were pulled out of their beds.
At nine o'clock that brilliant morning the Britannia lifted off, and he spoke to Berna. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
I've booked you on the 10 o'clock flight.
But around two o'clock, the skyway level slows way down.
MacFarlane's four-o'clock was listed as endangered by the State of Oregon in 1989, and the State is working toward a similar upgrade in status for the plant.
By Catherine Walter's reckoning, it was at 10 o'clock on Sunday night that the Board members of the National Australia Bank reached a deal.
The children had to get themselves off to school as both their parents went out to work at eight o'clock.
It's exactly nine o'clock.
Every Monday night at eight o'clock, Spanish football fans make a date with England's greatest export.
It was six o'clock and at Larksoken Power Station, the weekly interdepartmental meeting was drawing to a close.
Mr Brown did not return home until eleven o'clock.
I don't turn the air-con on until four o'clock, cool everything down then turn it off and the fan on. Nothing changes
Write your message as if it were the lead story on tonight's 6 o'clock television newscast.
This was followed by final production advice and then the national network broadcast at 6 o'clock.
Glancing at his watch, he realized that it was almost ten o'clock.
To complicate matters further, there will be no transport available till 8 o'clock.
The members of the Military Council are convening an extraordinary meeting at its headquarters at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
I kept at it and finally finished at 3 o'clock in the morning.
If we can get off by seven o'clock, the roads will be clearer.
Adriana: How about twelve o'clock at the new sushi bar around the corner from my office?
There have been texts at one o'clock in the morning. The Sun
There's Valerie, looking like a fierce little referee in a striped tank; Kristin, still looking sex-starved in a leather dress and bedhead; and Nicholas, looking like Ellen DeGeneres with a five o'clock shadow! Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
Tell the servant to knock me up at five o'clock.
The fire by this time had conquered all before it, and at seven o'clock in the morning the roof fell in with a terrible crash, shooting up into the sky fierce tongues of fire and myriads of burning sparks.
At eight o'clock each morning, either himself or one of his team checks the salmon cages on Loch Ness and begins feeding the fish.
By four o'clock I felt/was really hungry.
Can you finish the work by five o'clock/tomorrow/next Monday?
I always like to have a little something around 11 o'clock in the morning.
He is careful that his distiller does his duty, of which he can be assured only, by rising at four o'clock, winter and summer, to see if the distiller is up and at his business, and that every thing is going well -- and to prepare every thing and article necessary -- to attend and see the hogs fed, and that the potale or slop be cold when given, and that the cattle be slopped -- that the stills are not burning, nor the casks leaking, &c. &c. The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States
Our heating goes off at eleven o'clock and comes on again at seven.
It began at 5 O'clock, out on the grounds amid harlequin tents and decorations.
I usually have breakfast at about seven o'clock.
A little after eight o'clock the sun touches the altar rock, the signal for the burial to begin.
Oyez, oyez! this court is now adjourned until ten o'clock to-morrow morning," cried the bailiff in a singsong voice. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
We got to San Diego at 7 o'clock.
We'll be leaving at six o'clock prompt.
I got up at five o'clock this morning!
I've got a dental appointment at 3 o'clock.
Hitting the alarm clock he saw it was ten o'clock in the morning.
The first column marched towards the south-western gate at six o'clock.
We won't reach Miami till five or six o'clock.
Mrs. Plummet shed real tears when I told her my good news at six o'clock that night; and more tears a fortnight later when I moved out of my little hall bedroom, and my feather-weight trunk, lightsomely balanced on the shoulders of one man, was conveyed to the express-wagon and thence to new lodgings in Irving Place. The Fifth Wheel A Novel
At one o'clock the rain had ceased.
Be there at nine o'clock, without fail.
We're meeting him at 9 o'clock tonight.
At eight o'clock on Monday evening Nicholas was cabled a warning that only a handful of his troops remained loyal.
Eleven o'clock I went with a krypton handlamp and a small jeweller's loupe to look at the painting. THE TARTAN RINGERS
We're open till 6 o'clock.
At five o'clock in the morning, the reveille sounds and prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukov lies in his bunk, wondering if he should get up.
It's all settled-we're leaving on the nine o'clock plane.
I can't get there before four o'clock.
It's 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning and a group of busy professional adults are standing around in a tennis court wearing blindfolds, arguing loudly and clutching a long piece of rope.
The trouble began just after ten o'clock last night.
I'd eat a meal at about 11 o'clock and one about 8 o'clock here. Back to the Future
A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon's food. At eleven o'clock Squealer came out to make another announcement.
It's three o'clock in the morning.
I rolled out about three o'clock in the morning to ride guard till daylight.
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
The clock on the church tower said nine o'clock.
At 2 minutes past 8 o'clock this evening, the time, date and year will be a palindrome, viz: 2002 2002 2002.
AT ONE O'CLOCK they saw a little town in the distance, nestling on a cliff that looked down eastward on the purple Pacific. DESPERADOES
He put £10 on the horse in the 5 o'clock race.
At a push I could be there by eight o'clock.
By ten o'clock the bar was crowded.
The plane landed at two o'clock on the dot.
I'm looking forward to another late night quaffing session, even though it is already one o'clock in the morning and our hydrofoil sails at noon.
I'm scheduled to arrive in LA at 5 o'clock.
At four o'clock, we may expect this peace - making gentleman.
You might think that doesn't sound many but it was ten o'clock in the morning. The Sun
Other common plants are brittlebush, California sagebrush, several wildflowers in the aster family, and a wild four-o'clock.
No stone to be left unturned, and a report by word of mouth brought back by three o'clock at the latest. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Not knowing there was any leccy on anywhere we didn't leave the van till 9 o'clock.
I don't think she'll make the 8 o'clock flight.
By 7 o'clock a long queue had formed outside the cinema.
He was at his desk at seven o'clock every morning, no matter where he was or what else was going on.
Or else get dressed and go out and find a seven o'clock opener, a workingman 's bar. UNKNOWN MAN #89
Okay, it's after nine o'clock, and snow means that if I am going to be in Glastonbury at eleven, I need to start now with hot water and preparations. Could you be squeaky clean?
On Sunday morning he got up between eight and nine o'clock, and complained of not feeling well.
I arrive at the hospital at eight o'clock, but I don't go on duty until nine.
The clock on the church tower said nine o'clock.
And don't miss aperitivo o'clock - pre-dinner drinks that usually mean free snacks. The Sun
The organist died at nine o'clock the following morning. The Sun
They had to work until ten o'clock at night.
At twelve o'clock (noon) the next day the English engineers, with a party comprising all the Brazilian swells of Lagôa Dourada, proceeded to a valley within the village to lay the first chain for the exploration of the mountains which divide the watershed of the Rio São Francisco and the Paraopéba from the Carandahy and Rio Grande, for the prolongation of the Dom Pedro Segunda Railway. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
-- Gibbie nodded and she resumed: -- "But gien ye wad tak a lug o 'a Fin'on haddie wi' me at nine o'clock, I wad be prood. Sir Gibbie
That was a tame and pithless performance, and if Jasper was in it at all he was evidently resting his better forces for the bigger battle at three o'clock in the impending afternoon. John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher
'What time is it?'--'Eight o'clock.'.
The rocket is due to blast off at three o'clock.
You might catch him in about eleven o'clock.
The approximate time is three o'clock.
He reached Cambridge shortly before three o'clock.
I had nothing much to do before reporting to the banker at four o'clock.
They packed up at nine o'clock in the morning because of rain.
Their first meal is a good substantial dinner, at ten, eleven, or twelve o'clock, after which follow pawn and the hookha; to this succeeds a sleep of two or three hours, providing it does not impede the duty of prayer; -- the pious, I ought to remark, would give up every indulgence which would prevent the discharge of this duty. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
Sure enough, at nine o'clock sharp, a man who looked very much like a fisherman walked in bearing assorted calamari, shellfish and prawns on a large plastic tray.
Nine o'clock came around and I tucked Jenna in bed and read her ‘The Paperbag Princess.’
After several delays we finally took off at six o'clock.
The bomb was timed to go off at 12 o'clock.
Last time I was teaching them however, I was clawing at the door by about two o'clock hoping that someone would walk past so I could grab them and run away.
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
The six o'clock TV news was burbung quietly in the background, the volume down since the latest Voss manhunt item ended, but the VCR still whirring, Parlabane now obsessively recording every broadcast on the matter. Boiling a Frog
May I digress from our discussions for a moment and remind you that the train leaves at ten o'clock.
Be here by twelve o'clock at the latest.
I went to sleep, and at two o'clock in the morning I woke up.
The first pair are due to tee off at 10 o'clock.
By the time the Troopers arrived we had the living room equivalent of what Cronkite on the seven o'clock news might have called a demilitarized zone. Moratorium
`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'
Mr Brown did not return home until eleven o'clock.
That will suit me like one o'clock.
Tell the servant to knock me up at five o'clock.
She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
Recordings started at eight o'clock and the pair would be in the Television Centre bar by quarter-past nine.
The radio announcer said it was nine o'clock.
It was well after 12 o'clock when they arrived.
There was no doubt that Scott fell deeply in love with her, so much so that a friend whom he visited in 1797 wrote that "Scott was 'sair' beside himself about Miss Carpenter and that they toasted her twenty times over and raved about her until one o'clock in the morning. From John O'Groats to Land's End
At around eight o'clock, Odessa and Marilee still hadn't returned home, and Elizabeth heard a knock at the door.
You won't catch me at work after four o'clock.
About four o'clock, smoke would go up from the chimneys, as the fire was made up and the big iron boiler, or the three-legged pot, was slung on the hook of the chimney-chain.
We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
The night's milking is skimmed in the morning, and the morning's milk is skimmed about two o'clock in the afternoon: the two are then mixed together and put into a large copper kettle, suspended over a fire by a crane. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The often-misspelled bougainvillea is a woody tropical vine of the four-o'clock family.
In those long lightsome Irish summer evenings when the sun doesn't sink until after ten o'clock, the family would linger onboard at the mooring.
Every stoppage was a 12 o'clock misfeed, the last thing we expected with a tilting-barrel design so radical that it's patented.

How To Use O'clock In A Sentence

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