How to Use on the hour in a Sentence

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• When: Daily tours start on the hour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  — Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2022
• Catch a short show every hour on the hour from noon to 1 a.m.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The Catalans went 1-0 up in the clash thanks to a Robert Lewandowski strike on the hour mark.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Tree Talks, which start on the hour, highlight how and when park staff taps the trees.
  — Jen Banowetz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2022
• The one-hour time slot starts on the hour, not upon arrival, White noted.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2021
• Trey Benson spent a restless night, waking every hour on the hour to knock the slush and snow off his tent.
  — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
• The North Londoners were 2-0 up at halftime and cruising, adding a couple more goals on the hour to wrap the game up.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Shows are every hour, on the hour, each day from 7 p.m. until midnight.
  — Tamara Gane, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023
• Every hour on the hour, the tower’s bell -- forged in 1867 -- rings, marking the time of day with series of metallic gongs.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 19 June 2021
• Big Ben chimes on the hour and has quarter bells that chime every fifteen minutes.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 July 2021
• Tours are offered on the hour Wednesdays through Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Like all grande sonneries, the watch strikes on the hour and each quarter while also repeating the hour.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
• The repeater watch houses a mechanical movement that chimes the time on the hour, the quarter hours and the minutes past the quarter hours.
  — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• In this Breton town, at the crossroads between the Vilaine and Oust rivers, flower boxes line the bridges and a Gothic-era bell tower chimes on the hour.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2023
• This is what players hear every weekend, every hour on the hour between 8 a.m.
  — T.m. Brown, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• Purchase tickets in advance for showings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the hour Sunday through Friday.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 26 Oct. 2021
• Tours depart on the hour from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. every day except Christmas.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2022
• Each hour, on the hour, groups of three or four people, identified in court only by their juror badge numbers, would arrive.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2022
• On its official reintroduction on New Year's Eve, the bell rang at noon, 4 p.m., and every hour on the hour from 9 p.m. until midnight.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2022
• Then, the royal party and the veterans stood quietly as Big Ben a couple of hundred yards away, chimed on the hour signaling the start of the two-minute silence.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
• Here, travelers coming from the city of Cusco spill out of taxis and tour vans on the hour, dragging their suitcases and backpacks just a few feet to the train cars that whisk them 30 miles to the base of the Wonder of the World.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Apr. 2023
• If that were not enough bling, a collection of striking rainbow sapphires are set around the bezel with matching stones sitting on the hour indexes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2022
• Many people who heard Reddy’s version on hit radio stations every hour on the hour in the summer of ’73 probably never guessed the lyrics were so dark.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2020
• To help this person get through the night, Careline Alaska staff called them every hour, on the hour, until the person was safely contacted by troopers.
  — Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• Welfare checks occur on the hour, deputy director of operations Kenon Joseph said.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Someone needed to coordinate all of the lights and synchronize them to the music and short show, which happens on the square every evening on the hour from 5-9 p.m. That someone was Rohrer, who runs and manages Dither Studio.
  — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2020
• Researchers head out every hour on the hour to track temperature and humidity.
  — Nancy Chen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
• But the past year has been different: With preschool shut for my girls, now 5, the fragile lines dividing family and work dissolved completely; at night, the swirling vortex of my mental load woke me on the hour.
  — Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2021
• Hsieh is known for making endurance art: punching a work clock on the hour, every hour, for a year; living lassoed, rope around waist, to another person for a year; staying inside a cage for a year.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
• Its service was conducted outside in the courtyard, with blue Xs marking the spot where families could stand, two to an X. Services were held on the hour at a maximum of 70 attendees.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024