How to use "hour" in a sentence

In the hour and a half we've been together, we've already become friends.

For the last half hour, I've been thinking of my best chance of escape

I chip at the rock for another hour and remove as much as the piece that came off before

I can now only sit for a few minutes so I take smaller sips every hour.

Half an hour later, they were on their way

For almost one hour the pain, screams, and cutting continue.

After half an hour, the Dodo cried, 'Everybody stop! All the birds and animals stopped

We didn't talk, but after about an hour, I asked, 'Can I try it?' and he said 'OK', and gave me the harmonica

They played for about an hour, and I was lying back with my eyes closed, listening happily

I put everything in it, and after about an hour you could smell the cooking

An hour later, I was out of there and on my way to the hospital in Danang.

I waited in there for almost an hour before I came out again.

Later, I went outside and walked round for about half an hour, then went back

I had another hour before I had to catch the bus again, so I went across and watched him

It took me an hour to win that chess game.

It took me about seven minutes to win the first game, and half an hour to win the next

In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger

At this hour Charles Cross, a carman, was walking to work

Just over half an hour before, Russian and Polish Jews were having a discussion in the club

One evening in October 1815, an hour before sunset, a man with a long beard and dusty, torn clothes walked into the town of Digne

Valjean looked for the boy for another hour, running along the path, calling out his name, but with no success

He sat by her bed for an hour and then, having told the nurses to look after her, he returned to his home

Half an hour later, the people of Montfermeil saw an old man in a tall hat and long yellow coat walking along the road to Paris, hand-in-hand with a little girl dressed completely in black

Sometimes he stood for half an hour in a place where her father could not see him, looking at her and enjoying the small, secret smiles she sent him.

'She had an accident in the machine-shop where she works for six sous an hour, 'Jondrette explained

Half an hour later, Marius was at the nearest police station.

Nearly half an hour passed

The barricades were finished in less than an hour and, with the sound of drums in the city growing louder, Enjolras brought a table out into the street and sat down with his friends for a drink.

Half an hour later he left the house, dressed in his National Guard uniform, with a loaded gun and a pocket full of gunpowder, and made his way towards the market district of Paris.

Within half an hour the sound of gunfire in other places had stopped, and the rebels knew that they were alone

He waited in the small, damp room for an hour before sadly returning home

An hour later Branwell closes the door of the interview room and sighs

For half an hour he unpacks his things; then he sits down on the terrace with his bag at his feet and lights another cigarette.

They say this is premeditated murder because for half an hour Miss Lee looked for Mr Dawson; they also say she made her intention clear on three different occasions

A simulator cost five units per hour, which was a lot - but it was worth it for the escape it offered from the city.

You're the best! I love you so much." The hour on the beach was soon over

With five of them sharing, an hour cost just one energy unit each, so they did this often

"See you in an hour, Sala!"

And then she heard a voice: "Your hour is almost over

"So what? It was an hour, not two years."

"Just an hour?"

One hour a week

Sala's thoughts flew to Cham - she was supposed to meet him in an hour

She was over an hour late for meeting him at the simulator center, and because her ultranet connection didn't come back on until she was almost there, she couldn't even call him or send him a message

They walked back to the simulator center and spent an hour together alone in Space 29, where they chose their waterfall illusion

In the end, they had just an hour or two at his apartment before he left

An hour

After an hour, her legs were aching from standing still

"Do you think we could have a few minutes to talk on our own, at the end of the hour?"

A bell rang; the hour was over

It was half an hour before our usual lunch-time

I suddenly realized that we had been sitting at the table for more than an hour

'But I've enjoyed this hour so much,' de Winter said

In about an hour

But, every hour of the day, the past made a wall between us.

Maxim would not be back for another hour

The night passed, hour after hour

An hour went by

Two blocks from her house, intending to buy a quart of milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at a twenty-four-hour market and parked in the dry yellow drizzle of a sodium-vapor light, beside a gleaming, cream-colored Chevrolet station wagon

This year had passed in a blur of twelve- and fourteen-hour days, with no vacations and rarely a weekend off.

The final curtain came down at eight minutes till ten o'clock, and the ovation continued until after Tina's wristwatch had marked the hour

"Eat takeout food at two hundred miles an hour in the Batmobile, and no matter how messy it gets - just hose off later."

She decided to try his number again in half an hour.

"Your ad in the Yellow Pages says you can have a man here to change my locks in one hour."

She'd work for another hour, until five o'clock, and then go home

He enjoyed discussing antiques and paintings with her, and an hour passed in what seemed to be only ten minutes.

As an hour passed in front of the fire, and then another hour, Tina discovered that she liked Elliot Stryker more with each new thing she learned about him.

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

In this residential neighborhood, the speed limit was twenty-five miles an hour

When Elliot rounded the corner two blocks later, he braked from sixty miles an hour to make the turn

The land began to rise toward Mount Charleston where, less than an hour away, pine forests were mantled with snow

"We've got less than an hour, so there might not be time

"You really think we should confront Bellicosti at this hour?" she asked.

Even at 1:45 in the morning, as they passed the entrances to casinos, loud music and laughter and the ringing of slot machines gushed forth, not a merry sound at that hour, a regurgitant noise.

The stores will be open in an hour or so."

Half an hour and five maps later, Tina's hand suddenly skipped across the paper as if someone had bumped her arm.

She and Elliot had turned off Interstate 80 a quarter of an hour ago, following the route Danny had marked, circling the edge of the wilderness

Perhaps the lateness of the hour and the fading light would work against them, but approaching in the night might actually be to their advantage

He was driving at only ten miles an hour, but she gave him so little warning that he passed the turnoff

"He'll need half an hour anyway," Hensen said.

They chose it as one of four of my novels to be developed as two-hour TV movies that would launch Popcorn, Sugar Babies, Dum Dums, and Dean or whatever the series would have been titled

Indeed, these meetings were enlivened by colorful storytelling - although none of it had to do with developing my novel into a two-hour filmed entertainment

Considering the fearsome number of meetings I had to sit through, my per-hour wage penciled out at less than I would have made if I had taken a part-time job at McDonald's.

Put the boy to bed and come back in an hour's time.

'He's dead - he's been dead for half an hour, I think.'

'He has been dead just over half an hour, I think

'I said about half an hour, but...'

'But didn't you tell him that the study clock was always kept a quarter of an hour ahead?'

An hour later Griselda came back

Half an hour, he thought

Ten minutes - a quarter of an hour - not longer than that.'

And anyway, why do you keep your clock a quarter of an hour ahead?'

And the 6.50 train was half an hour late! I didn't get home until half-past seven.'

'But that train was half an hour late

He did not know that it was always kept a quarter of an hour ahead

An hour or two later a field-gun arrived for use against the first cylinder.

We got there without any problems at about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I had supper with my cousins and left my wife in their care.

'You have been asking for water for the last hour,' he said.

After this it seemed that the three Martians spoke together, and those who were watching them report that they stayed absolutely quiet for the next half-hour

These continued for a quarter of an hour, firing blindly at Martians too far away to be seen

When, an hour later, a Martian walked down the river, there was nothing but broken pieces of boats in the water.

We worked hard for half an hour, but we peeled only four potatoes

However, half an hour later, Mr and Mrs Swan returned with eighteen other swans

Or, we can have dinner and spend an hour in a pub,' I said.

'Has this gentleman treated you badly? Is he the reason you're here alone at this hour?'

An hour later, she came to my room looking agitated.

The Count burnt the letter, and, half an hour later, he and the Countess were gone.