Below you will find example sentences with "rush hour". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Rush Hour in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: rush
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 23.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "rush hour" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 23.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 3 during rush hour except maybe, appeared in rush hour 2 as, traffic, morning and per stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with per hour, gold rush, pass rush, gold rush and pass rush, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with rush hour
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Make rush hour a relaxing hour with some live music. (10 words)
A man walks over rush hour traffic in Quezon city, Philippines. (11 words)
It will only run in rush hour, once per hour in both directions. (13 words)
In Montreal, the city’s transit agency said in January it would readjust some of its schedules because of the “current context,” adding that it could no longer guarantee a wait time of 10 minutes or less between buses on any of its lines during rush hour. (47 words)
It's like a highway: if you build it to handle rush hour traffic, and it does so without congestion during rush hour, then at 5 p.m. it doesn't matter at all if the traffic at noontime is twice the normal noontime average. (45 words)
However, even the train system is a mirage for women because many train lines in Tokyo – for example – provide an end carriage for women to avoid sexual harassment during the morning rush hour. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
However, both variations drop the definite article with rush hour: at rush hour (BrE)/in rush hour (AmE).
It's like a highway: if you build it to handle rush hour traffic, and it does so without congestion during rush hour, then at 5 p.m. it doesn't matter at all if the traffic at noontime is twice the normal noontime average.
Congestion mitigation main Rush hour policies Some cities adopt policies to reduce rush-hour traffic and pollution and encourage the use of public transportation.
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.
This phenomenon is called rush hour or peak hour, although the period of high traffic intensity often exceeds one hour.
An increasingly urbanized valley where there are daily traffic jams at rush hour and it is not uncommon for motorists to get stuck in their car for an hour, or more.
Earlier, southbound traffic on the Ayalon Highway was stopped for kilometers for half an hour during rush hour after about a hundred activists blocked the road.
It will only run in rush hour, once per hour in both directions.
Make rush hour a relaxing hour with some live music.
A black bear had to be tranquilized and rescued from the top of a tree during rush hour in Pitt Meadows on Tuesday.
A man walks over rush hour traffic in Quezon city, Philippines.
During the morning rush hour that day, the authorities said, Mr. James opened fire on an N train in Brooklyn.
For these passengers, squeezing themselves through Paris at rush hour is not an adventure, but an everyday reality, necessary for their return home.
Heck, nothing is more fun than driving home from crew practice on Route 3 during rush hour, except maybe dental surgery.
However, even the train system is a mirage for women because many train lines in Tokyo – for example – provide an end carriage for women to avoid sexual harassment during the morning rush hour.
In Montreal, the city’s transit agency said in January it would readjust some of its schedules because of the “current context,” adding that it could no longer guarantee a wait time of 10 minutes or less between buses on any of its lines during rush hour.
Jackie Chan (Rush Hour) and Jean-Claude Van Damme (Bloodsport) used martial arts to their advantage.
Moreover, she appeared in ‘Rush Hour 2’ as Isabella, the love interest of Jackie Chan.
Motorists are being warned of rush hour delays on a motorway after another m-way was closed overnight due to flooding.
Officers could be seen running after them during the height of rush hour traffic.