Sentence examples for off for hours from inspiring English sources

Alarms would sound and not be switched off for hours.

I set off for hours of unplanned, aimless wandering.

The neighborhood was closed off for hours by dozens of police officers.

But when the lights flicker on and off, and then stay off for hours, the doctors truly begin to sweat.

I had been behaving erratically: talking about killing myself, disappearing off for hours and leaving her worried sick.

As traffic on the northbound lanes of the Major Deegan was closed off for hours, investigators tried to reconstruct what happened.

They also use a pulse irrigation system so that they can put water on the trees for an hour, then off for two hours, on again for another hour, and so on.

The rate is 1.5 hours off for every hour worked overtime.

I tried washing them off, scrubbing for hours, but could never completely erase them.

Nowhere is the problem more acute than in Lepage's "Ring," where the dreaded apparatus known as the Machine cuts off perspective for hours on end.

In June, a lightning storm hit the Virginia data center, taking Netflix as well as Pinterest, Instagram and other sites off line for hours.