Sentence examples for hour close from inspiring English sources

He built the wind tunnel to produce speeds of 625 miles an hour, close to the sound barrier.

In fact, he was doing the hurtling: within thirty seconds, he had fallen thirteen thousand feet and reached a terminal velocity of more than six hundred miles per hour — close to the speed of sound.

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Kansas City has a 19percentt poverty rate and the average worker earns $22.50 an hour, close to the national average, according to federal statistics.

One Disney World employee who told me they make $13.02 an hour, close to the average rate cited by the website, is still struggling.

If we recollect that we were mad for an hour or afraid for an hour close examination reveals that actually we felt that emotion a number of times within the hour, it wasn't one continuous emotional episode.

And with that, the hour closes; time has run out.

It's also an hour closer to the Channel ports than the Dordogne.

I sat there for over an hour closing the wound so that each edge met its opposing match.

Choreographed by Keith Michael for children 3 to 8, the ballet, which lasts just an hour, closes on Saturday.

Without him, it would be merely the means by which you drew an hour closer to death.