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Example sentences for "whole hour"

  • I remained with her for a whole hour; the prince did so too.

  • A whole hour, dear father, I've been waiting for grace.

  • How could he expect to keep an audience like ours listening for a whole hour to a single paper?

  • He was a perfect ass and dragged out his article for a whole hour.

  • For a whole hour afterwards, the old man was shaking with anger, and by evening he was worse, and sent for the doctor.

  • I will only say that this business took a whole hour, but Ivan was well content with it.

  • Doctor Herzenstube came to me in the kindness of his heart and was examining them both for a whole hour.

  • I liked him very much once—liked him for almost a whole hour.

  • Ribettes had swallowed dust for a whole hour; Ribettes wanted to get ahead again, but wasn't able.

  • I have seen men who yawn at the opera form a ring, under a hot sun, for a whole hour in order to witness the decapitation of the poor hanging creature.

  • I have been begging and entreating him for a whole hour to come away.

  • We walked up and down for a whole hour, and I did not feel in the least tired.

  • Accordingly, I hastened to his house, where after having waited a whole hour in the lobby, I was admitted to his presence, and my performance received with great state.

  • Here I waited for a whole hour, during which time I now and then heard muffled shrieks and yells of pain and agony that made me shudder.

  • But a whole hour went by, and they were now nearly exhausted.

  • Besides, the ship's head was seldom a whole hour in any one particular direction.

  • He therefore left all to Gibbie, and did not once look up for a whole hour.

  • She got out of bed with difficulty, then for a whole hour sat on the edge of it motionless, unsure that she was not in hell.

  • Donal read to them for a whole hour, concerning which reading, and Ginevra's reception of it, Nicie declared she could not see what for they made sic a wark aboot a wheen auld ballants, ane efter anither.

  • They made heavy weather just off Ardnamurchan Point McBain stuck to the tiller, and for a whole hour, or more, perhaps, there was not a word spoken by any one.

  • Here they made a stand, and the battle raged for a whole hour; but when did ever savages hold their own very long against the white man?

  • An hour, and yet no signs of returning life--a whole hour, and they still seemed to look on poor Rory as on the face of the dead.

  • It was only six o'clock,--a whole hour left in which to get to Cambridge!

  • And then they have been talking for so many years that to stop for a whole hour might--kill them, who knows!

  • I have closely watched four small boys these several years now, and I never knew one of them to sit still for a whole hour at home--not once in his whole life!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whole 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:
    anything except; compound leaf; easily accounted; gold production; here mentioned; livestock products; make concessions; nearly opposite; pure culture; whole allspice; whole being; whole day; whole family; whole force; whole frame; whole group; whole heap; whole host; whole hour; whole lifetime; whole night; whole people; whole skin; whole soul; whole week; wholesale prices