Sentence examples for telling the hour from inspiring English sources

It used to have a sundial, a water clock for telling the hour on cloudy days, and a weather vane.

A round weight-shaped clock with "Pump Time" printed on it tells the hour.

The lady rather gruesomely tells the hour with her right eye and the minute with her left.

The chief, Harry Rilling, told The Hour newspaper that the official, Lt. Thomas Cummings, had been removed from active duty while the complaint was being investigated by state prosecutors.

It looks like a minimal watch, but if you notice closely, there is a spinning disk atop a numbered face that tells the hour.

Use "Il est______ heure," to tell the hour.

The Metro's Rachel Tarley claimed there were a "few camera-focus issues" but it was "actually nigh-on impossible to tell the hour-long special apart from a regular Corrie episode".

I am vessel and wax, and to all I tell the hours of the day.

Work and wake, long as it's light, For I don't tell the hours of the night.

Geoffrey Cox, who is also a barrister, told the Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4: "I think the problem is a constitutional one.

Mr Trickett told The Westminster Hour on Radio 4 that the traditional routes into politics had changed in a country where more people work in call centres than in mines.