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How to use the word Hours in a Sentence?

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Writing is not a mere occupation, but a passionate journey that transcends boundaries of time. It demands countless hours of dedication, pouring your soul onto paper, immersing yourself in a world of imagination. When the clock strikes nine to five, true writers ascend beyond the ordinary, igniting their creative flame that burns through the night. Embrace the unyielding spirit that fuels your words and remember, great stories are born from the relentless hours we invest, illuminating the world with our art.

Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
2 months ago

They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn’t have to hear the godawful screaming. I’m exhausted and my blood boils and there’s nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead…

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

If you give individuals an alternative activity that they enjoy, then by default, substance use will decrease. They have something else to do with their time, now, this doesn’t necessarily have to be, you know, running for hours on a treadmill. You know, it could be going outside and playing basketball or tennis or pickleball, or whatever your favorite sport is.

Mark Smith

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I knew it would be hours before others could call her. And I thought she deserved to know, and we’re close right now to where I made that call, i’ve been governor during this pandemic, I’ve been governor during tornadoes and floods and -45 degree windchills and everything else. And we’ve lost a lot of people during those.

Andy Beshear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of awkward things happen in the night when people are sleep deprived, drink caffeine too late, drink alcohol too late, worked too late or slept four hours last night because they stayed up too late, the fundamental core and foundation of healthy dream life starts with healthy sleep.

Nirit Soffer-Dudek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had the family ring, and I was literally just sitting there for hours outside the hospital in the rain, i knew as soon as she came out of hospital that I was going to ask her to marry me.

Trail Aaron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We drove for hours together, we’re staying in an Airbnb together.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I always tell people is, you know, getting about seven hours a night of uninterrupted sleep is associated with the least amount of cardiovascular disease.

Andrew Freeman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of the workers start to work after 12 or one o’clock in the morning, when the bars start to close down, now you have maybe two hours to make any money, which is not enough.

Felicia Anna

Found on CNN
1 year ago

CER fully supports the completion of a high-speed rail network connecting all major cities, urban nodes and airports, it will reduce rail travel time between EU capitals and major cities to under four and six hours and, with affordable and comfortable trains, rail will become the preferred mode of transport. This is why it is essential for all [ EU ] member states to invest in high speed rail.

Alberto Mazzola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For example, a flight from Tokyo to London which now has to head east over the North Pacific, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland has to add 2.4 hours of flight time and is likely to burn around 5,600 gallons more fuel, a 20% increase.

Amex GBT

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Within 48 hours, 39 state parties referred the Ukraine situation to my office, and it’s now 43 from different parts of the world – from Japan, from Latin America, and from Europe. So that’s one-third of all state parties to the court, the simple reality is that these crimes have not been hidden.

Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What previously took months and quarters took policymakers days and hours, as a result, it is unlikely that the economy will experience the traditional credit crunch that we have seen in the last several business cycles in the post-Volcker era.

Alex Pelle

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

How many 30-year-olds could travel to Poland, get on the train? Go nine more hours, go to Ukraine, meet with President (Volodymyr) Zelensky? so, look at the man. Look what he’s doing. Look what he continues to do each and every day.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For example, AlphaGo (the AI that beat the world’s No. 1 Go player in 2017) was trained on data from 160,000 games, a person would have to play five hours a day for more than 175 years to experience these many games.

Thomas Hartung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The smell was terrible and made it very hard to breathe, i was coughing a lot for a good two hours after.

Joseph Fleck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, we were there two hours after the train went down – two hours, i’ve spoken with every single major figure in both Pennsylvania and in Ohio, and so the idea that we’re not engaged is just simply not there. And initially, there was not a request for me to go out even before I was heading over to Kyiv, so I’m keeping very close tabs on it. We’re doing all we can.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We would have two hours of electricity, then five hours without electricity, then three hours of electricity, it was really demoralizing, the worst thing about that was that the streets weren’t lit. And not all people use their torches or have [reflective] jackets to be seen on the road. And every week I would see a car crash from my balcony and some people died.

Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The best day of our whole trip was in Desenzano, we hired a speedboat and spent a few hours zooming up and down the lake – it was awesome. We were going round Garda Island, that huge palace [ the neo-gothic Villa Borghese, a Venetian-style mansion on Garda’s largest island ]. You could go wherever you wanted.

Rick Turner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cold weather is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it makes it very difficult, it is below freezing right now… On the other hand, it may reduce the demands for water. Perhaps that is playing into this, there is not a lot of data on how long people could survive in these situations but we are seeing those rescues 200 hours out.

Sanjay Gupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Ukrainian soldiers are trained for 12 hours a day from Monday to Saturday.

Krzysztof Sieradzki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Aim to get at least seven to eight hours of good quality sleep per night, as we tend to choose foods higher in sugar when we’re tired.

Brooke Aggarwal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things I’m most proud of is on a campus this size how quickly every student staff faculty member immediately took action. They sheltered in place and they did so for hours.

Teresa Woodruff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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