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Example sentences for "hour ago"

  • Such a party passed us at the gallop about an hour ago.

  • I groaned inwardly, and I grew, I think, more afraid than when Ramiro and his men had broken into the church an hour ago.

  • You sent me this wire only half an hour ago: `Come at once, if possible, with another doctor.

  • She was sitting on that chair an hour ago, and is now talking to Miss Duke in the garden.

  • An hour ago, and for four years previously, these people had avoided each other, even when they had really liked each other.

  • She could meet his look with a smile, but in her heart were the same thoughts that Cherry had been innocently indulging, under the rose vine an hour ago, and the dream that had been Heaven to Cherry was Purgatory to Anne.

  • An hour ago," he said, "if it had been that the least thought of what this meant to you might have reached me an hour ago, it would not have been too late.

  • He was thinking of little Cherry's goodnight kiss, half an hour ago.

  • He did not try to explain to himself why Roger Audemard's visit had broken down things which had seemed insurmountable an hour ago.

  • An hour ago he would have cut off a hand before spying upon St. Pierre's wife or eavesdropping under her window.

  • Of that, too, he had been thinking an hour ago.

  • I brought him a fresh pillow half-an-hour ago; I hung his hammock wrong on purpose that he might want one.

  • You were lions half-an-hour ago; you are not surely turned sheep already!

  • On the word of a gentleman, they left my house an hour ago.

  • An hour ago, the happiness of knowing that I shall never press her again, intoxicates me like strong liquor.

  • An hour ago, he was seen to leave his house at Lambeth, in a cab, accompanied by two men, who were recognised by my men as police officers in plain clothes.

  • I have been out this morning--and I only got back a quarter of an hour ago.

  • Yes, Kitty: my journey has been more rapid than I could have expected; and I arrived at Greenfield about an hour ago.

  • She walked down to the glen about half an hour ago.

  • That Hit went off home an hour ago; said her head ached, and she'd got to get the men's supper.

  • An hour ago he was in bed at his mother's house in Welbeck Street.

  • It was rumoured, you know, an hour ago, that he was off to the continent after Cohenlupe.

  • In a moment the conversation was stopped; but when Lord Grasslough asked Nidderdale in a whisper whether he knew anything about Melmotte, the latter answered out loud, 'Yes I left him in the House half an hour ago.

  • I was here more than an hour ago, and they said you were out.

  • It is not an hour ago since I myself, Hystaspes, and others of the Achaemenidae saw you in the hanging-gardens.

  • After a great deal of trouble I succeeded, an hour ago, in obtaining one from a poor girl who had given birth to a child secretly in the house of the old woman, who lives at the entrance to the City of the Dead.

  • Mrs. Clemens wrote you a letter, and handed it to me half an hour ago, while I was folding mine to Mr. Howells.

  • The Atlantic arrived an hour ago, and your faultless and delicious Police Report brought that blamed Joe Twichell powerfully before me.

  • She had been motored over and here set down, complete with booth, half an hour ago.

  • But about an hour ago a girl did come here.

  • Had she not nearly killed us both an hour ago?

  • The Magpie left my place an hour ago--to get his kit, I think.

  • I cracked old Isaac's safe half an hour ago--and I guess there won't be any idea going around that you got the money and I pulled a lemon.

  • I waited till nine o'clock, an hour ago, and I was getting nervous.

  • I go out an hour ago, to look after this poor girl here.

  • These young ladies were here an hour ago; I repeat, sir, that during my absence, they have been taken away.

  • She doesn't look half so miserable as she did an hour ago.

  • Mother and Aileen had been in bed an hour ago, and all the better for them.

  • Why, the gentlemen called for them half-an-hour ago.

  • But if you are alive--live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago.

  • He had another stroke about half an hour ago.

  • Half an hour ago he believed that he had definitely made up his mind.

  • A quarter of an hour ago he had laughed at the thought of the law.

  • He raised the papers higher, and again looked upon his discovery of half an hour ago.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour ago" 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:
    dance hall; declaring that; direct opposition; distilled vinegar; general officer; higher sense; hour afterward; hour ago; hour earlier; hour late; hour later; hour longer; hour more; hour past; hour together; hour went; hour will; hours after; hours before; hours later; little dreaming; nine members; second daughter; supernatural powers; under what; will thrive