Sentence for hours | Use hours in a sentence

A sentence using the word hours. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use hours in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for hours.

  • That meant twelve hours. (12)
  • A few hours will tell us. (22)
  • He sits by her side for hours. (10)
  • Then the old hours lived anew. (10)
  • Long hours the baronet sat alone. (10)
  • Six hours have done it this time. (10)
  • Your maid is two hours in the rear. (10)
  • He seemed to have been hours counting. (8)
  • She had felt nothing like it for hours. (4)
  • He had not eaten for a good four hours. (10)
  • They sent for her after a lapse of hours. (10)
  • A dreary two hours brought round daylight. (10)
  • I hope we shall keep it up these two hours. (4)
  • He hated all things else, all hours, all ways. (12)
  • Hours of remorse and indecision lay before him! (8)
  • She sat at the bedside for hours and held my hands. (12)
  • He would stay for hours, with eyes fixed on her face. (8)
  • There are hours of vengeance even for henpecked men. (10)
  • But many were the tedious hours which must yet intervene. (4)
  • No one had entered for the last two hours, was the reply. (10)
  • A regular stand-up combat: eight hours smelling powder and gore. (10)
  • The subjects discoursed of by the two endeared the hours to them. (10)
  • Laura sat pondering for hours, harsh in manner, as if she hated her. (10)
  • That was previous to her perjury by little, by a day-eighteen hours. (10)
  • Some hours later, Countess Lena appeared, bringing a Trentino doctor. (10)
  • Michael submitted once more, and for two hours he was an obedient pupil. (12)
  • Richard in his hours of excitement was thrown very much with Lady Judith. (10)
  • Sitting alone by his fire, he gazed at her for hours and bled for Philip. (10)
  • The curtain falls for a few seconds to indicate the passage of three hours. (8)
  • A few moments of feverish enjoyment were followed by hours of acute suffering. (4)
  • Astounding how much can be talked of in two or three hours of a railway journey! (8)
  • He was back in his rooms in London two hours before he dared begin expecting her. (8)
  • They had been sitting there nearly two hours, but latterly little had been said. (13)
  • But he obeyed; only, as the hours went on, his eyes seemed never to let her alone. (8)
  • And now, twenty-four hours and more must pass, because-of not looking at his watch! (8)
  • Out of the window he looked for all the hours of light during an entire fortnight. (10)
  • The hours and hours we waited for those dew-dripping sheets to dry! (20)
  • We rode out for a couple of hours, and had to knock at a farmhouse for milk and bread. (10)
  • They can have just two hours for business, and then we must all be there to receive him. (9)
  • It was dusky noon there through the hours of light, and thrice night when darkness fell. (10)
  • The mystery of her conduct troubling his wits for the many hours was explained by Danvers. (10)
  • What was she thinking and brooding over into small hours when she ought to have been asleep? (8)
  • In the afternoon he would go out alone and walk for hours, any where, so long as it was East. (8)
  • While thus the hours went slowly by, his attention was attracted by a bright light in the sky. (6)
  • She spent hours at her little table in the schoolroom, writing letters to Harz that were never sent. (8)
  • He wished to gratify his son by these eulogies of Lucy, and some hours back he would have succeeded. (10)
  • We caught the coach, we caught the boat, we were only two hours late for the Ball; so we did wonders. (10)
  • Claret or brandy had done its work on him by the time I encountered him some hours later, in the Park. (10)
  • Could it be less than twenty-four hours since he had picked up her handkerchief, not thirty yards away? (8)
  • In the small hours he slipped out of bed, and passing into his dressing-room, leaned by the open window. (8)
  • I call you my husband, and tremble to be permitted to lean my head on your bosom for hours, my sweet lover! (10)
  • It was not a remarkable speed, when all was said; and we took four hours to cover ten miles at the best of it. (2)
  • He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his repugnance. (4)
  • When, some hours later, his spirit had breathed his last, Montcalm was buried under the floor of the Ursuline Convent. (19)
  • The little which had been spoken between her and her sister in such a chasm of time, gave a terrible swiftness to the hours. (10)
  • For they knew that in the absence of the English fleet, Cape Breton could send a force in a few hours to overrun the country. (19)
  • Two days and six hours only since she had stood there above her pansies; since, at this very spot, Rosek had kissed her throat! (8)
  • There he spun out the hours in a parley, hoping against hope that the recreant Vaudreuil would return and try to succour the city. (19)
  • In twenty-four hours the newcomer from the West appeared in the office of a managing editor with specimen pages of the book itself. (16)
  • V In the small hours, which so many wish were smaller, the Colonel had awakened, with the affair of the handkerchief swelling visibly. (8)
  • He knew the long hours of waiting and the lean minutes of a half-public meeting; the tortures of suspense that haunt the unhallowed lover. (8)
  • The two friends, with hearts now more united than ever, were inseparable for the day; and in schemes of sisterly happiness the hours flew along. (4)
  • The sisters that night slept together, feeling the very pulses of the hours; yet neither of them absolutely hopelessly, although in a great anguish. (10)
  • They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter, for all the minute knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every twenty-four hours. (4)

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