Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "hour passed"

  • About a quarter of an hour passed--not a soul moving--before he again appeared, holding a gourd in his hand.

  • Half an hour passed, each minute seeming an age; for it was a fearful thing to be caged there in the darkness, knowing nothing of what was going on.

  • Half an hour passed, the flesh being nearly gone, and a few of the larger bones only remaining.

  • Another half-hour passed, at the expiration of which time I also was invited into the sanctum.

  • The stipulated half-hour passed away; and at the end of that period the unwelcome conviction forced itself upon every one that the lugger was having the best of it.

  • Another half-hour passed away, and still no sign of a pilot.

  • Alice answered by changing the conversation, and, after an hour passed in pleasant chit-chat, Fred.

  • An hour passed by, during which the grief-stricken girl never moved, when the door opened, and Hannah Doliver entered.

  • A half-hour passed in low, earnest conversation, when the grating of the iron key aroused them, and Louise had only time to draw her veil over her features when the jailer entered.

  • A quarter of an hour passed, half an hour; he crawled continually, praying at the same time, commending his body and soul to the protection of the heavenly powers.

  • Half an hour passed, an hour; he went on unceasingly, but grew more and more weary.

  • Again half an hour passed; the swamp was not visible yet.

  • Still an hour passed, and the water had fallen a little.

  • But more than an hour passed, and I grew frightened, till at last I sent up Daniel Conner to see if he could find my father.

  • About three quarters of an hour passed in some hurry and confusion, ere Clive and his daughter were prepared to set out.

  • An so an hour passed, and the night deepened toward the birth of another day.

  • Half an hour passed, and now at length the dim and clustered lights of the village began to show vaguely through the mist.

  • Nearly a half-hour passed thus, when the library door was opened hastily, and Irene came in, dressed magnificently in party costume.

  • A half-hour passed, while the two men remained motionless, and then, satisfied that the fort was unoccupied, they stepped cautiously from the shelter of their tree.

  • An hour passed, during which the pace slackened perceptibly, and then with only ten miles to go, two more dogs laid down.

  • An hour passed as he sat thinking--staring into the dark.

  • Half an hour passed, when Phil suddenly caught sight of high cliffs to right and left, while on the summit of one of them seemed to be a fort, for the white masonry was distinctly visible.

  • An hour passed, and it was very evident that the fury of the storm increased rather than diminished.

  • An hour passed, and still they slumbered placidly, the wash of a big boat as it slipped by them failed to rouse them.

  • I left the room, but Mr. Hartley remained, and a quarter of an hour passed before he joined me in the street.

  • In such light and pleasing conversation an hour passed unheeded--for minutes winged with pleasure fly unnoticed.

  • Half-an-hour passed, and Gulo flung his head around, glancing over his shoulder a little uneasily, but with never a trace of fear in his bloodshot eyes.

  • Half-an-hour passed, an hour slid by, and all the time Gulo kicked the miles behind him, with that dogged persistency that was part of his character.

  • Half-an-hour passed, and one of the Brothers, peering up and along the trail a little anxiously, saw the forking of the line ahead.

  • Half an hour passed before a fresh assault was made.

  • Half an hour passed, and the tigress was now making no more than a low moan.

  • An hour passed, and the scene had but changed to this extent that the moving figures had settled down to a man to give themselves up to the soothing influence of tobacco.

  • Fully half an hour passed in this profound silence.

  • A quarter of an hour passed perhaps, and I determined to creep to the wall and see if my assailant were anywhere visible.

  • An hour passed, then a faint glimmer showed in the east above Shillmoor's edge.

  • Every man of the crew had to shake hands with Marble, congratulations were to be exchanged, and a turbulent quarter of an hour passed, before it was possible to get a coherent account from the man of what had befallen him.

  • After this, another quarter of an hour passed, during which the fall of a pin might almost have been heard, so profound was the silence.

  • An hour passed, two hours and still there was no indication that my dear Christopher realized that I was near him, bending over him, praying for him.

  • An hour passed, during which the two doctors and the medium watched anxiously by the sleeping patient.

  • An hour passed now, during which the spiritual physician gave Seraphine her instructions for the night and made preparations for the struggle that he knew was before him.

  • An hour passed in the search, without hearing or seeing ought but the rude winds and breaking waves; and this is the last ever known of poor Bill de Conick.

  • The curtain fell at midnight; and after an hour passed in a brilliant cafe, sipping ices and punch, I returned to mine inn.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour passed" 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:
    about one; being elected; chief part; draw together; dull reddish; engine room; frequent communion; green paint; hour afterward; hour afterwards; hour ago; hour ahead; hour and; hour before; hour earlier; hour more; hour passed; hour together; hour went; hours after; hours before; hundred lines; light windows; more interesting; ruling party; though from