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Example sentences for "full hour"

  • Could it have spoken, it might have told them where Irma had startled it from its resting-place--a full hour's walk from where they then were.

  • It takes three hours on foot, but on horseback it's a full hour more.

  • Fergusson remained for a full hour and a half at the Telephone Exchange, anxiously awaiting any further corroboration.

  • For a full hour he remained there, strolling up and down alone in quick impatience.

  • After a full hour of flight he descended and alighted on a terrace roof and shaking me off his back lashed me on the face with his tail and gouged out my left eye causing it roll along my cheek.

  • I was met by a perfume whose like I had never before smelt; and so sharp and subtle was the odour that it made my senses drunken as with strong wine, and I fell to the ground in a fainting fit which lasted a full hour.

  • Then she came forth and dressed and the cup went round a full hour.

  • And they ceased not to eat and drink and chat, nibbling dry fruits and laughing and playing tricks for the space of a full hour when lo!

  • When to be eaten, it must be boiled a full hour, and served with sweet sauce.

  • Beat the ingredients together a full hour at least.

  • Run that into another tub, and pour the rest of the water on the malt; stir it well, cover it up, and let it infuse a full hour.

  • Strain this liquid by degrees into the dry ingredients, beating them together a full hour; then butter the hoop or pan, and bake it.

  • Our condition as a nation is in no respect worse than it has been for several years past.

  • We reached the casino and waited there a full hour; but there was no sign of Michelotto.

  • It was something to do, and passed away a full hour.

  • I succeeded indifferently well in arranging my dress, and so passed a full hour.

  • It was a relief to discover a road where a man could pass without stepping over the dead bodies of his comrades, and for a full hour we rode with none of those dreadful emblems of tragedy to which we had become so accustomed.

  • We all dismounted, and for a full hour went as mountaineers upon a precipice.

  • At least, we thought so for a full hour, until a second troop of the Red Hussars appeared in the open, and we hailed them joyfully.

  • It is true that I heard the sound of voices when a little while had passed, and that a busy murmur of talk went on at intervals for a full hour.

  • The man with the red cravat entered an inn in Fore Street, and remained there a full hour, the other man watching in the vicinity.

  • It took me a full hour to get on to Bournemouth, and after long delay I at last heard her sweet, well-remembered voice at the instrument.

  • It seemed as though it were a signal to somebody; yet though I went back to Shaw's door and listened there for a full hour, I heard no sound of any movement.

  • Donkeys had to be unloaded, led through a torrent, and loaded again on the other bank--an operation which consumed a full hour.

  • The foolish fellow actually, laid on the ground in the hot sun a full hour; and when I coldly asked him if he did not feel rather uncomfortable, he sat up, and wept like a child.

  • It was a beautiful spectacle, and one at which an imaginative person might have gazed for a full hour or more without tiring.

  • He looked at me hard, kept on watchin' me for mebbe a full hour, until he figured I was sound asleep.

  • Thus the unfortunate one's jaws were stretched wide open, oftentimes for a full hour.

  • The Caliph, weeping sore for her, abode by the tomb a full hour, after which he arose and went away, in the utmost distress and the deepest melancholy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full hour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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