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Example sentences for "hour after"

  • It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the steam had slackened; and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney.

  • An hour after, they were once more suitably attired, and with Aouda returned to the International Hotel.

  • About an hour after, Garland was ordered to advance directly along the causeway, and got up in time to take part in the engagement.

  • He kept his own regiment with individual exceptions in hand, an hour after Appler's and Mungen's regiments had left their proper field of action.

  • An hour after I had sent off this epistle I received a reply to my first letter.

  • You can come at an hour after midnight; love will await you.

  • An hour after Ferdinand's arrival, the Emperor visited him.

  • For more than an hour after that he worked.

  • He went on, hour after hour, weaker and weaker.

  • He stopped and rubbed his eyes; and for an hour after that, as he plodded onward, he mumbled things which neither Kazan nor any other living thing could have understood.

  • She returned to the charge half an hour after: 'Will you end, then!

  • As she lay, hour after hour, waiting for the sleep that did not come, she had at first the keen mortification of reflecting how easily she had been led by mere vanity into imagining that she could be of use in the world.

  • Half an hour after he went up the stairs of the lodging-house and knocked at the familiar door.

  • He pictured her face wasted with secret tears, those eyes which were the light of his soul fixed on the walls of the cell, hour after hour, in changeless despair, the fire of passionate resentment feeding at her life's core.

  • Hour after hour I have sat there in the extremest misery, waiting, waiting, feeling as though my brain would burst with its strain!

  • He could now devote himself with sure hand to the larger phases of the thing he shaped; and as he worked, hour after hour, he felt, as never before, the sure and cosmic grasp with which he held life and the affairs of life.

  • It was exhausting work, carried on, hour after hour, at top speed.

  • This went on, hour after hour, while outside all the world swooned under the overhead California sun.

  • So lasts it, hour after hour; for the space of half a day.

  • This thing ran strongly in all our heads; and we went, an hour after, to see if the woman was lurking about, and took Mr. Colbrand for our guard.

  • This vile woman held my master till half an hour after seven; and he came hither about five in the afternoon.

  • I will allow you to be half an hour after me, or so.

  • Two of the Rigbyites met in the market-place about an hour after midnight.

  • About half-an-hour after Mr. Rigby had entered that lady's apartments it seemed that all the bells of Monmouth House were ringing at the same time.

  • About an hour after this, the ball-room still full, but the other saloons gradually emptying, Coningsby entered a chamber which seemed deserted.

  • About an hour after, mass being somewhat hastily run through by Sir Oliver, the company gathered in the hall for dinner.

  • But the Knight of Tunstall was one who never rested from money-getting; and even now, when he was on the brink of an adventure which should make or mar him, he was up an hour after midnight to squeeze poor neighbours.

  • Later, when it became lighter, they went on hour after hour, through the night.

  • What Came Of The Great Love Experiment For an hour after he had gone to bed Philip lay awake thinking of the doctor's story.

  • Do I look so sleepy," said the Roman, "as to want to go to bed again now, only an hour after sunrise?

  • In about half an hour after, the family assembled at breakfast, and the servant was sent out to call him.

  • I could not leave it any more than I could have left a dying child, nor could I restrain an almost hysterical sobbing for an hour after I laid my head upon my pillow.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour after" 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:
    armed force; free and independent states; her maid; hour after; hour afterward; hour afterwards; hour ago; hour and; hour earlier; hour late; hour later; hour longer; hour passed; hour past; hour since; hour they; hour together; hours later; sent post; shall get; silver fork; something quite; sustain life; termed the; true humility; yellow paper