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Example sentences for "hour when"

  • Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these two souls, Marius was there every evening.

  • He used to go there at an hour when he knew the squire would be asleep, between two and five.

  • He did not see little Ghita, or Gyp, as she had nicknamed herself, for she was already in her bed; and it was a whole month before he brought himself to go there at an hour when he could see the child if he would.

  • He had been back at his rooms in Buckingham Street half an hour when a club commissionaire arrived with Mr. Paramor's promised letter.

  • I had not been back for a quarter of an hour when a syndic of the town, an amiable man, whom I had seen at M.

  • I made an appointment with him at an hour when I knew they would be all in the parlour.

  • Le Duc had scarcely gone an hour when a messenger on foot came to bring me a second letter from the widow.

  • No, 'twas not new, for through many an hour when he had marked the shadow in her eyes he had vaguely guessed some fatal burden lay upon her soul--and had striven to understand.

  • Despite his warm love for my Lord Dunstanwolde there had never come an hour when he felt that he could have revealed even by the most distant allusion the tenor of his mind.

  • Be ye also ready; for at an hour when ye think not, the Son of man comes.

  • They remained in council for nearly an hour when I was called into the room, and to me, as the monk's right hand, the plot was explained so that I could assist in it.

  • And for two months there did not seem to be an hour when he was not assaulting the window.

  • Yet we fell asleep, and had slept about an hour when my companion sprang up in an unwonted state of excitement for so placid a man.

  • In riding along the highway there was hardly an hour when such a scene was not in view.

  • It was on that bridge that Audley Egerton had appointed to meet L'Estrange, at an hour when he calculated he could best steal a respite from debate.

  • I had been lying wide awake for perhaps an hour when I again heard Cynthia's voice.

  • I judge that I had been in the cell for nearly an hour when I heard some hurried footsteps coming down the corridor.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hour when" 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:
    been away; forked branch; hour after; hour afterward; hour afterwards; hour ago; hour before; hour late; hour longer; hour passed; hour since; hour went; hour when; hour will; hours later; left college; might call; same subject; seated herself; sixteen hours; solar myth; something good; the language; unless otherwise; wild fruits; you only