Sentence examples for official closing time from inspiring English sources

Both times, polls stayed open hours past their official closing time to accommodate huge lines of students.

In Mexico City, bars and restaurants will be crammed until their official closing time of 4 a.m.

The stores were largely stripped of merchandise, shelves and other fittings and several branches shut before the official closing time.

In Calabria, the last voter marked his ballot papers at four in the morning, six hours after the polls' official closing time.

It was approaching 9 p.m. — two hours past the clinic's official closing time — and a couple of patients were finishing up with one of the clinic's other physicians.

Hundreds were waiting when officials announced at least two hours before the official closing time that they would stop letting people in.

The doors remained open to visitors at a discounted admission price until early November, a little beyond the official closing date, by which time most of the animals had been sold for an estimated £100,000.

"Due to the time and location of where this accident occurred, hundreds of people were on the sidewalk, in the parking lots, and to the front of nearby restaurants and bars during bar closing time," officials said.

He refused to leave Oyster Bay Town Hall at closing time after officials politely rebuffed the couple's request for a marriage license.

Near closing time, race officials reported that 671 had required medical attention and 136 were taken to hospitals by ambulance, both numbers higher than usual.

Election officials said those in line by closing time would be allowed to cast ballots, and 90 minutes later many were still queued up as networks began calling the race for Walker.