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On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hour. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as minute or period and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.

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Hour in a sentence

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Hour meaning

  1. A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
  2. A season, moment, or time.
  3. The time.

Synonyms of Hour

hr minute period period of time time period time clock time time of day unit of time time unit 60 minutes distance

Hour vertaling naar Nederlands

uur stonde

Using Hour

  • The main meaning on this page is: A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes). | A season, moment, or time. | The time.
  • Useful related words include: hr, minute, period, period of time.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: uur, stonde.
  • In the example corpus, hour often appears in combinations such as: an hour, per hour, hour and.

Example sentences (20)

In the U.S., clocks are moved ahead by one hour in March for daylight saving time, depriving us of one hour of sleep, and then go back an hour in November, giving us an extra hour’s sleep.

Harvard University Press, 1983, p. 76. Unequal hours Sunrise marked the beginning of the first hour (the zero hour), the middle of the day was at the end of the sixth hour and sunset at the end of the twelfth hour.

As for the city centre, the basic in tariff zone A1 will be €3 per hour, in A2 it will be €2 per hour, and in tariff zone N, which represents the Pri Jazdiarni parking lot, it will be €0.60 per hour.

Crucially, workers increase their wages by leaving jobs, not by staying at them: A cashier making $13 an hour at a coffee shop gets $16 an hour by taking a position at a pet store, then $19 an hour by becoming a manager at a restaurant.

In terms of refunds, a passenger should be offered 25% of the ticket price if they are delayed by one hour for a four-hour trip, two hours for four and 8-hour trips and six hours for a journey scheduled to last more than 24 hours.

It's the fourth time junior doctors walk out this year following a 72-hour strike in March, a 96-hour strike in April and a 72-hour strike last month.

They had to count out an hour without using any clocks or watches and step off their stump between an hour and an hour and five minutes after the event started.

Do not forget either that the clocks go forward an hour at 1am on Sunday, meaning the loss of one hour’s sleep – unless you just get up an hour later than normal – but also heralding the start of lighter nights.

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Runners were given the choice to participate in a six-hour, 12-hour, or 24-hour running challenge.

The decision means that short-stay parking in Huddersfield will increase from 70p an hour to £1.10 per hour, with fees in and other areas of Kirklees set to increase from 5p to 50p per hour.

When my friends say they like to sail, what they mean is they like to leave the dock for an hour, drink for an hour and then return in an hour.

During the morning rush hour in Boston, traffic typically moves at 35 miles per hour (55 km per hour) on the Massachusetts Turnpike headed from the Western suburbs to offices downtown.

It rounds to the hour, kind of like how the Nintendo Switch handles such stats, the difference being the PS5 clocks with one-hour intervals, rather than five-hour ones.

That means sunrise happened one hour earlier on November 1 (sadly, it means sunset will occur one hour earlier as well.) For weekend workers, at least, it means an additional glorious hour of sleep on Sunday.

Third shift jobs get to use an hour of vacation time to get 40 hours for the week, go home and take a 39-hour paycheck, or sometimes employers let those affected stay for the hour into 1st shift.

Typical pay for staff at the Athena homes will nearly double to $35 an hour for a certified nurse’s aide, $50 an hour for a licensed practical nurse and $70 an hour for a registered nurse, Brown said.

Uber disputed the $12 an hour figure in the TWU survey and cited a report by Australian economic advisory firm Alphabeta that found in Sydney the average earnings per hour for drivers, net of costs, was estimated to be $21 per hour.

For example, if the companies insist on a 12-hour day while the workers like keeping their 8-hour days, could part-time workers be hired to take on the last remaining 4 hour block?

Valencia is only a two-hour train ride from the Spanish capital, while you can catch a seven-hour coach or three-hour train from Barcelona.

Sunday night's two-hour episode aired as a one-hour conclusion to the reunion, followed by a one-hour special entitled Will Nicole & Azan Say I Do?

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Common combinations with hour

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • an hour 90×
  • per hour 70×
  • hour and 32×
  • one hour 25×
  • hour to 23×
  • hour of 15×
  • hour in 13×
  • hour or 13×
  • hour after 11×
  • hour on 10×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "hour" in a sentence?
An example: "In the U.S., clocks are moved ahead by one hour in March for daylight saving time, depriving us of one hour of sleep, and then go back an hour in November, giving us an extra hour’s sleep." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "hour" from authentic English texts.
What does "hour" mean?
Hour means: A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
What are synonyms of "hour"?
Common synonyms of "hour" include: hr, minute, period, period of time, time period, time, clock time, time of day. Plus 4 more synonyms.
What is "hour" in Dutch?
"hour" translates to Dutch as: uur, stonde.
How many example sentences with "hour" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "hour", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.