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Example sentences for "four hours"

  • I have been worrying about a ship, and was very near sailing to-day by the Queen of the South at twenty-four hours' notice, but I have resolved to wait for the Camperdown.

  • I should have gone back to Paarl, only that ships come and go within twenty-four hours, so one has the pleasure of living in constant expectation, with packed trunks, wondering when one shall get away.

  • Give him a few drops of chloroform every three or four hours: it's his one weakness.

  • A week after the theft, he went to the Chamber of Deputies, asked for my husband and bluntly demanded thirty thousand francs of him, to be paid within twenty-four hours.

  • He could scarcely sit up after the terrible excitements of the last twenty-four hours.

  • The unhappy gardener had aged twenty years in twenty-four hours.

  • The Taylors had been asked to Wyllys-Roof, at any time when they wished to see Jane, and they had now come for twenty-four hours, in accordance with the invitation.

  • There is abundance of time for this excursion; for the passage of the ship through the many locks occupies three to four hours, and the excursion can be made in half the time.

  • However this may be, we were delayed twenty-four hours at the first half of our journey, from Stockholm to Calmar, although we had only a slight breeze against us and a rather high sea, but no storm.

  • Thus we were put off, and lost twenty-four hours.

  • They gave me twenty-four hours in the jacket to think it over.

  • I lived through my twenty-four hours, and I have never been the same man since.

  • He had then been seventy-four hours in the jacket.

  • My punishment was twenty-four hours in the jacket.

  • Four hours of sleep in the twenty-four had meant being robbed of four hours of life.

  • There were twenty-four hours in each day.

  • There are twenty-four hours in each day, and I must spend them somehow.

  • We give him twenty-four hours to set Natacha Feodorovna free.

  • In twenty-four hours, if he has not succeeded, he will return here to give himself up.

  • I had not been back twenty-four hours before I ran across Rose Waterford in Jermyn Street.

  • After all, there are twenty-four hours in the day, and the summits of emotion can only be reached at rare intervals.

  • He had no great difficulty in leaving the ship, and in twenty-four hours, with all his belongings, he was on shore.

  • A little disordered always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what sickness was afterwards.

  • They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter, for all the minute knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every twenty-four hours.

  • If you meet a lady you know looking ill, and ask the cause, it generally turns out to be "four hours a day standing to be fitted.

  • It is a diplomatic fiction that the new acquaintance has called in person, and the call will be returned within twenty-four hours.

  • Yet that meal will cost me considerably more than my guests pay for their twenty-four hours' board and lodging.

  • For twenty-four hours before, the whole city is en fete, and Paris en fete is always a sight worth seeing.

  • We'll get across to the Hollow some time within the next twenty-four hours, and there we'll be safe anyhow.

  • With the work we'd had for the last five or six months we were all in top condition, as hard as a board and fit to work at any pace for twenty-four hours on end.

  • The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.

  • To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

  • Indeed, it seems very strange to myself that you should have been here not twenty-four hours yet, and know so much of me.

  • The universe revolves around a centre once in twenty-four hours, but the orbits of the fixed stars take a different direction from those of the planets.

  • This, although not literally contradictory, is in spirit irreconcilable with the perfect revolution of twenty-four hours.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "four hours" 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:
    four braccia; four cases; four different; four drops; four eyes; four grains; four leagues; four leaves; four months; four pairs; four pieces; four pound; four species; four square; four states; four stories; four times; four tons; four weeks; four winds; four women; foure hundred; fourteenth century; fourth pound; shall only; wood used