Sentence examples for hour slips from inspiring English sources
Nearly half of these children are already on the critical list, inching further away from life as every hour slips by.
The soldiers navigated the narrow valley for nearly an hour, slipping along the stone as a crystal stream gushed by.
A "rescue engine" was on its way, but after half an hour slipped by without any sign of deliverance, I began to despair.
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.
His first subject was George "Taters" Chatham, once the best-known thief in Britain and a man with a big gambling habit; if he ran out of money during a poker game in the West End, he would ask to be excused for half an hour, slip up the drainpipe of a nearby Mayfair house and return with enough jewellery to stay in the game.
A half-hour slips by, an hour, then two.
And if These Final Hours slips a little in a plot sense, it's because Hilditch's focus ultimately lies elsewhere – in creating an experiential, brooding, disgustingly plausible hypothetical universe.
("Take care of every minute; otherwise hours slip away and days are lost").
You soon find yourself rather busy, the hours slipping away like honey off a spoon.
