Word Finder - hour

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A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

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I spent an hour at lunch.

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A season, moment, or time.

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The time.

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The hour grows late and I must go home.

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(in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.

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(in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.

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A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

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This place is an hour away from where I live.

We just got back about an hour ago.

We haven't even been out for an hour yet.

She was still awake an hour later when Alex came through the door.

An hour later she found herself staring vacantly into the fire again.

They had cake and ice cream and talked for nearly an hour about one thing and another.

The hour for the feast came.

She led him to the back room where her things were piled and then resumed her last hour of work at the diner.

Instead, she decided to use that extra hour to take a relaxing bath.

Even if he was a Mormon, how could he make plans with this Darcie when he had proposed to her only an hour ago?

Don't spend a half hour selecting what you need, either.

After nearly an hour of riding, they descended the steep walls of a draw and followed it to a small valley.

Half an hour later, her eyes swollen and her chest sore from sobbing, she turned her face up to the warm water in the shower.

Can Howard have an hour off to show me around Keene before I leave?

Less than an hour after the phone call, Destiny woke up in a fit of coughing.

The employer gained $9 an hour, Chang got a job, and no one is worse off.

Katie arrived an hour later to pick up Jonathan and Destiny, and thirty minutes later Carmen and Alex were in the car headed for the airport.

What they had witnessed in the last hour required the silence of personal reflection.

An hour ago I saw chaos that resulted from lies, half-truths and secrets.

Impatience prompted me to telephone Ethel Reagan before the allotted hour was up.

Jane, our GPS, as Betsy named her, didn't let us down and we found our friend's cabin at the end of a dusty road, hungry for dinner after a six hour drive.

But it's at least a two hour drive to Boston.

Before the half hour was ended he had written a very neat composition on his slate.

They rested for less than an hour and then he saddled the horse again.

His ride had taken almost an hour.

Howie returned after the allotted hour tour.

His hour has come!

We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the dining room.

It no longer seemed strange to them but on the contrary it seemed the only thing that could be done, just as a quarter of an hour before it had not seemed strange to anyone that the wounded should be left behind and the goods carted away but that had seemed the only thing to do.

In an hour or so the storm would abate and they could leave.

Within an hour Betsy had assembled a full biography.

I'll call you back in an hour.

Give me an hour or so and a number where I can call you.

About an hour later, a well-dressed gentleman came into the hotel and said, "I wish to see Mr. Jefferson."

It should be done now, but... maybe an hour?

Betsy was knee deep in meetings through the dinner hour so I was designated to baby sit Howie.

He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, and not only at the same hour but at the same minute.

When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out such a plan in which the enemy's position was assumed to be known, whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement.

Alex told her to call him back if she didn't give birth in an hour.

I'll stand watch first and Fritz can relieve me in an hour.

Finally, after a half hour of tossing and turning he gave up.

We were an hour into our drive south before I broached the subject, asking her about the tete-a-tete.

It's only a four hour trip, maybe.

Two blocks away we found a dark spot that catered to happy hour regulars.

We can't even do an abduction that happens sometime over night but you don't know the hour.

We readily agreed in spite of the late Friday night hour.

Howie was three thousand miles away; who would come to call at this hour of the night?

Either way why don't you take a drive down here to headquarters in the next hour or maybe I should send a car up there for you.

The pastor continued as if we hadn't taken nearly a three hour break, mostly continuing his sermon.

I had more than an hour to wait at Philadelphia International Airport.