Sentence examples for hour slipped from inspiring English sources

A "rescue engine" was on its way, but after half an hour slipped by without any sign of deliverance, I began to despair.

The soldiers navigated the narrow valley for nearly an hour, slipping along the stone as a crystal stream gushed by.

Nearly half of these children are already on the critical list, inching further away from life as every hour slips by.

He moonlights as an art thief, typically booking a client into a crucial interview and then, at the appointed hour, slipping into the guy's empty house and relieving him of a picture.

When the brakes were all the way off they could go thirty miles an hour, slipping up the high sides on the curves and lifting slightly from the track on the dips.

The first few hours slipped by unawares, all of us engrossed in the scenery.

As the hours slipped by, their conversation continued, but they grew increasingly uncomfortable standing in the airport and decided to sit in Mr. Campbell's pickup truck instead.

"Hours slipped," he says.

In my case, the hours slipped away with such pleasure that a revelation took place: This simply had to be my career!

But total listener hours slipped from 5.52 billion in Q1 2016 to 5.21 billion this quarter, while active listeners fell from 79.4 million to 76.7 million.

The hours slipped by and I had a whole bunch of new music.