Word Finder - hours

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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.

That's over forty-eight hours ago.

But we have a couple of hours to wait.

You and I spent hours together, for years and years.

Betsy spent hours on the computer, searching for results from our second tip but nothing was reported.

After a few hours of limited rest, they were back in the saddle again.

We agreed the tests were finished for the day but mellowed by wine; we spent two more evening hours summarizing our findings.

He had to pass five hours at a time to have them counted.

It's after hours but you can leave word.

And at night what soothing, wondrous hours we spent in the shadow of the great, silent men-of-war.

It's already been hours!

The case was only hours old when Betsy spotted it giving us hope for the boy's recovery and the perpetrator's arrest.

I often tell them stories or teach them a game, and the winged hours depart and leave us good and happy.

A few hours later, Quinn would set the power source to the time and location, not informing Howie.

It was Delaware, in the middle of nowhere and I watched the house for hours before I took my prize.

It seems more like days than hours.

Most mares foal at night, but I think it may happen within a few hours.

His gaze lingered before he strode towards his bedroom, determined to get a few hours of sleep.

After a few solid hours of sleep, his sense of center was back, his mind clear.

That gives you three hours.

He pulled his phone free, realizing neither Toni nor Darian had checked in for a couple of hours.

She was supposed to meet him in a few hours.

Yeah, he's been pacing like a madman for a couple of hours.

To her relief, she still had a few hours to sneak out and make it to the airport.

Several hours later, just as evening set in, she entered the disaster that was her apartment.

Two freed her a few hours later and let her walk around the room.

He fell into silence again for several hours.

He didn't remember how he got it, and he doubted it'd been there before kiri put it there hours before.

We've got to start moving everything within twenty-four hours, Lon told them, slinging a machine gun over his shoulder.

She hadn't seen her new mate, Darkyn – the Dark One – since he drank his fill of her hours before and left.

She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.

It was hours before I calmed down.

Cynthia eventually bowed to Martha's sobs and crept into her room, spending most of the dark hours holding the grieving child.

It's a good six hours away and that's only as long as she's been gone.

Both lay awake, trying not to disturb the other while neither slept until hours after the sun finally slipped around the corner to the other side of the world.

The time is two hours later in New Jersey.

Twenty-four hours after his hour-long downhill hike from the mine, Dean's stilts felt like he'd run a barefoot marathon on cobblestoned streets.

Cynthia had volunteered a couple of hours selling tickets for the Ouray Chamber's Jeep raffle.

Two hours remained before the last of the day's celebrations— the Jeep flare parade down the mountain, followed by a massive fireworks display—so after finishing supper, the Deans began playing catch up with Bird Song's chores.

It will be light for a couple more hours at least.

The road remained in the trees and it seemed like hours before he was once again in the open and able to see the valley before him.

While Dean remained distressed over the accident, he knew he must concentrate on the Women's Club debate just hours away.

The churning in his stomach increased as the hours passed.

Incredibly, the winning time is just over two hours!

Hours later they were still awake, talking intermittently, taking comfort in one another.

They got twenty-four hours to do something.

He had driven most of the two hours they were together while Patsy slept.

It seemed like hours before we found our way out.

You didn't seem to mind me holding you for hours last night on the beach.

They'd sat for hours, until human-Deidre's distress faded and turned first to disbelief then hope then resolve.

Gabriel had stayed with her for hours without showing any sign he was ready to leave.