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How to use the word 24-hour in a Sentence?

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What they may have lost in print circulation they have made up for in social media clout and influence over politicians, they animate and direct the mob day by day and hour by hour.

Brian Cathcart

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

They animate and direct the mob day by day and hour by hour.

Brian Cathcart

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

Our dogs can come in, they can screen 100 kids in a half hour, and then only the ones the dog alerts on have to actually do a test, there’s no invasive nasal swab unless the dog happens to indicate on you.

Carol Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s minimally invasive in this sick population versus what could be a three -, four-hour open surgery with large wounds, blood loss, cardiac risk, i think that this is going to expand the use of this technique for years to come for those people who, unfortunately, do n’t have options for a bypass.

Christopher Abularrage

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m praying, I’m praying for day, at night every hour every minute every second, they’re going to try to eventually wake him up to see what his brain does. They say they can’t tell right now because he’s sedated.

Jessica Drain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Earth Hour aims to increase awareness and spark global conversations on protecting nature, tackling the climate crisis, and working together to shape a brighter future for us all.

The WWF

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m a diligent person, and I tracked the whole way from San Francisco to Seattle, taking screenshots the entire time. I live an hour from Seattle, and once I got home, I was still taking screenshots.

The AirPods

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The vertical farming industry have done a remarkable job of reducing labor, water, and costs such as land costs. They are achieving a huge amount of productivity per square acre, per hour of worker and per liter of water use.

Evan Fraser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were crawling on their knees for about an hour, it was dark down there. They had one cell phone light, and that was it.

Firefighter John Loennecker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hopefully we can begin enforcement very soon, this is a residential neighborhood that should not have to endure 24-hour nightclubs.

Miami Beach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Paul Sorvino was one of the greatest actors in cinematic history in Hollywood. It is unconscionable that he would be left out of the In Memoriam segment of the The Oscars, it’s a three-hour show, they ca n’t give a couple more minutes to get it right ? Paul Sorvino gave decades to this industry and was loved by all. Paul Sorvino was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable.

Dee Dee Sorvino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s beauty in that, those moments of in between, if we are having a good day or a good hour, and it’s a beautiful sunny day, we’re going to spend it at the beach or lake and be grateful for even one or two hours he doesn’t experience an episode, it’s beautiful and brutal at the same time. Every single thing that Henry does or endures, it feels miraculous and terribly tragic at the same time.

Mary Saladino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not able to do manual work (which in this case means typing or using a mouse) for extended periods of time without my hands starting to cramp, i can however write for an hour or two at a time. This wasn’t a problem in Twitter 1.0 since I was a senior director and my job was mostly to help teams move forward, give them strategic and tactical advice.

Haraldur Thorleifsson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is a little more interesting now, and also visible tonight and this week, are the close and prominent positioning of Venus and Jupiter in the western sky right after sunset, the astronomical word for this is ‘conjunction.’ These planets will be setting as the moon is rising, so they are only visible for about an hour at sunset, near the western horizon.

Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They came around 10 a.m. We consider that rush hour in a densely populated area.

Ahmad Jibril

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I make $ 14 an hour. Where am I supposed to go ? i do n’t want to be here now with with my kids.

Natalie Rine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Taking a photo of yourself while you’re driving a 2,000-pound vehicle down the road at 50 or 60 miles per hour? That is putting your life in danger and putting the lives of those around you in danger.

Jackie Gillan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was probably gone an hour and a half from my mom’s, and I saw them about 45 minutes before that.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For example, their one hour of screen time can be reserved for a time when you have an important video meeting to attend.

Joyce Harrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would love to ask these execs if they could get by on $1 an hour more. It’s disheartening. They don’t have to decide [whether]...to eat or get gas.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m filling my car three times a week, i would love to ask these execs if they could get by on $1 an hour more. It’s disheartening. They don’t have to decide [whether]...to eat or get gas.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier.

Chris Galarza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They shut us down on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day every hour for anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes to an hour, well, once your power goes down, your heat pumps go off and pipes freeze. But less than one mile away is crypto, allowed to run on the low end. As soon as the power came back, boom! They’re cranking before we are.

Ron Wright

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The beauty of introducing a 52-hour workweek was that you gave a signal to employers, unions and workers saying, ‘Listen, you really have to do something about the long working hours culture in your country,’ if the current legislation is all about giving flexibility then that’s fine. But it doesn’t seem to be interpreted as such.

Willem Adema

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

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