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Example sentences for "past four"

  • At afternoon service at half-past four I heard every word just as plainly from my bed on deck as I could have done had I been below in the saloon.

  • Tom and I were obliged to hurry away at half-past four in order to see the Naval Brigade at exercise, under the command of Captain Hixson.

  • We reached our anchorage safely at half-past four, and soon afterwards many people came off to the yacht.

  • The Chancellor was very polite, and regretted that he had not time that day to go into the business, but requested him to come the following Wednesday at half-past four.

  • We came to anchor, and continued to roll about till half-past four, when we landed in safety.

  • We were on horseback at half-past four in the morning.

  • Another at half-past four in the afternoon.

  • This, I suppose, was about half-past four in the afternoon.

  • I went to bed that morning at half-past four, and those head-lines were put in after.

  • All left the office about half past four.

  • Colonel Guthrie resides at East Liberty, and received his orders about half past four, A.

  • On the next morning we set off at half-past four o'clock, and went until ten to breakfast.

  • At half-past four, I went to dine with Lieutenants Morton and Folger in the cantonment.

  • We began the ascent of this stream on the 19th, at half-past four A.

  • The deed of partnership was signed that afternoon at half-past four.

  • Now, you say, he came in first about half-past four.

  • Why, I heard half-past four go just before he came in, by the church clock; and clocks differ you know Sir.

  • Carrissima, arriving with Phoebe at half-past four, was prepared to admire everything.

  • She ordered tea for half-past four," replied the woman.

  • We arrived at our hunting-ground about half-past four.

  • We started on our return to Ega at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon.

  • At half-past four o’clock in the morning the Lord Justice-Clerk proceeded to charge the jury.

  • At half-past four in the afternoon sailed out of the harbour, and lost sight of land at nine.

  • At half-past four I mounted the coach for this place, and not an object of interest presented itself in the journey of thirteen miles.

  • We passed Dunbar and Berwick, our road near the sea most of the time, and at half-past four, the coach stopped opposite the lodge of Twizel House.

  • I arrived at Twizel Hall at half-past four in good time for dinner, having travelled nearly eighty miles quite alone in the coach, not the Mail but the Union.

  • It did not go till six, the clerk told me; but I reminded him he had said half-past four when I asked him last night.

  • But of course, when four o'clock came, I had to call myself, and in a quarter of an hour a knock at the door announced half-past four.

  • The diligence for Bonneville was to leave Annecy at half-past four in the morning; so I told them to call me at four, intending to breakfast somewhere on the way.

  • She reached the room over the greengrocer's shop at half-past four, and found Amory in a long pinafore, painting.

  • It was into this house of lamentation that Stan entered at half-past four.

  • Wrote my task, then walked from one till half-past four.

  • Started at half-past four, and arrived at home, if we must call it so, at nine o'clock in the evening.

  • At half-past four we passed the entrance of the River St. Francis, a considerable stream on the left bank.

  • Yet, the temperature stood at 50° at half-past four o'clock, the moment of our embarkation.

  • We were again in our canoes the next morning at half-past four o'clock.

  • It was the first of July, at half-past four o'clock, A.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past four" 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:
    blank paper; breadth from; frequently repeated; leaves opposite; long ways; lunatic asylums; parish priest; past ages; past days; past events; past five; past generations; past grand; past lives; past nine; past seven; past ten; past three; past twelve; pastoral poetry; pastry flour; six weeks; that name; what are; whose acquaintance; young madam