It was half-past ten o'clock at night when I met him, and he said that he had intended going back for the package if it had been safe to do so.
Listen, then, Jimmie: Be at the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place at exactly half-past ten.
At precisely half-past ten, to the second, he halted on the designated corner, smoking nonchalantly.
That meant, then, that he would arrive home about half-past ten, and there would be his aunt and his grandfather and his father sitting up waiting for him.
The marble clock struck half-past ten as she spoke.
Her maid went to bed; and we three sat talking till nearly half-past ten o'clock, which is very late for the country where men rise at four o'clock.
I went up and down for a little while outside His Majesty's lodgings; and about half-past ten I saw Mr. Chiffinch coming.
In spite of a stout defence, this village was carried and occupied about half-past ten by the Bavarian infantry.
At half-past ten, the 29th Brigade came up on the hither side of Tertry with the rear-guard of the XXIInd Corps and its trains.
Here we sing treason, here we flout reason, night is out season at half-past ten.
The lunch will be eaten by ten o'clock, and the boys home at half-past ten, thinking it is almost sundown.
I DID ask Helda what time she had let the gentleman out and she said before eleven--not much after half-past ten, in fact.
He complained of a headache after dinner, and they went home at about half-past ten.
Hurry, or it will be half-past ten before we have time to eat a single thing.
It was half-past ten o'clock when the last good night had been said and the young people were on their way home.
The half-past ten o'clock bell rang before the fudge was half gone.
Then, right after I returned from calling on you to inform you of their loss, which was about half-past ten, he and I went out to the stables and he gave the other one to Olaf here to hide for him.
In going down at half-past ten I called upon Hardinge, who was in his dressing-gown.
At half-past ten went to Lord Rosslyn's, to arrange with him the Lords' Address.
The King was rather better at half-past ten, when the bulletin was dated.
They themselves must have been much amused, and the Chancellor's not getting to dinner till a quarter past eight, and going away at a quarter-past ten, must have satisfied them that something was in the wind.
About half-past ten a servant from Le Bateau brought her a note from Ann Eliza, who wrote as follows.
As I entered the Business College at half-past ten on the morning of the examination it suddenly struck me that I had never been inside the place in the daytime before.
This was at half-past ten in the morning, so that I had some hours to spare.
The passengers will leave Santa Paula at half-past ten.
On the other hand Endicott was immensely puzzled by the presence of an Asiastic at all in this inland and lonely valley far from railways and towns, at half-past ten of the night.
Moreover, the sunlight did not keep its promise: it went out altogether at half-past ten; the ridge became bitterly and dangerously cold, and soon after midday the wind rose.
He wound up his watch; the hour was not yet half-past ten.
The pair had arrived about half-past ten, and a little later Dr Stirling had fulfilled his promise to look in if he could.
She won't let you be out after half-past ten, eh, Benbow?
Oh, I'm not even dressed--and that clock says half-past ten!
Christopher had come softly into his house, at about half-past ten, to find Alice awake, still on the big couch before her fire.
It was almost half-past ten when a bell-boy approached.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past ten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
