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Examples of all hours in a Sentence
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And the best part is, it could be eaten all hours of the day.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
That was the case even before the pandemic upended the working arrangements of millions of New Yorkers who once required full-time childcare workers and now seem to want nannies to be on call at all hours, but be compensated for just a fraction of them.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
The team wanted to evoke the idea of endless cooking—from all hours of the day; from sunrise to sunset with inspiration from the endless elements of nature.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
For the last two weeks, White and his neighbors have heard frequent honking at any and all hours coming from the Waymo lot, often waking him in the middle of the night as the cars beep at each other — a seemingly worthless alert as one unmanned vehicle honks at another.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1668, in the meaning defined above
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“All hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20hours. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
all hours
plural noun
: a very late time
stayed up until all hours
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