Zero hour will be notified in writing from Australian Corps Headquarters by noon on the day prior to zero.
Zero hour, for the opening of the attack, was therefore fixed for twenty minutes past five.
About 22 casualties occurred under this fire before zero hour at 5.
Zero hour arrived, but the Battalion as well as the 3rd Londons was still slipping and struggling a long way short of its assembly area.
But exactly on the "zero hour" these shell-bursts ceased and over the heads of the infantry the lighter shrapnel began to rip and crash, pouring a torrent of bullets along the earth in front of the line as it started to move forward.
There was just one hour of light before the time set for the attack, the "zero hour" when the infantry would go over the top, and that hour was filled with a final intensive bombardment that set the earth and air quivering like a beaten drum.
Months of work and preparation have led up to it; then one morning at dawn, in an intense silence we wait with our eyes glued on our watches for the exact second which is zero hour.
Often at zero hour we have seen whole populations of cities go over the top and vanish, leaving behind them their bloody rags.
As they hobble through the streets of London, they display the same gay courage that was theirs when at zero hour, with a fifty-fifty chance of death, they hopped over the top for the attack.
At zero hour, Lieutenant Lord's platoon jumped off towards the south-east, intending to capture Vine Cottage and swing round northwards to the final objective.
The men of the 50th made their way to Beer Trench, and at zero hour, 3.
Zero hour, I was told, was early the next morning.
Nearer and nearer the hands crept to zero hour, but they move slowly at such times.
The men at the guns, which had hitherto been concealed and kept silent, were ready to open fire at zero hour, and all along that front the eager heart of Canada waited impatiently for the dawn.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zero hour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
