How to Use on the hour in a Sentence

on the hour

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  • When: Daily tours start on the hour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    — Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Catch a short show every hour on the hour from noon to 1 a.m.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Tree Talks, which start on the hour, highlight how and when park staff taps the trees.
    — Jen Banowetz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The one-hour time slot starts on the hour, not upon arrival, White noted.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2021
  • Trey Benson spent a restless night, waking every hour on the hour to knock the slush and snow off his tent.
    — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Shows are every hour, on the hour, each day from 7 p.m. until midnight.
    — Tamara Gane, Chron, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Every hour on the hour, the tower’s bell -- forged in 1867 -- rings, marking the time of day with series of metallic gongs.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 19 June 2021
  • Big Ben chimes on the hour and has quarter bells that chime every fifteen minutes.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • Tours are offered on the hour Wednesdays through Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Like all grande sonneries, the watch strikes on the hour and each quarter while also repeating the hour.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The repeater watch houses a mechanical movement that chimes the time on the hour, the quarter hours and the minutes past the quarter hours.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In this Breton town, at the crossroads between the Vilaine and Oust rivers, flower boxes line the bridges and a Gothic-era bell tower chimes on the hour.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2023
  • This is what players hear every weekend, every hour on the hour between 8 a.m.
    — T.m. Brown, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Purchase tickets in advance for showings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the hour Sunday through Friday.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Tours depart on the hour from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. every day except Christmas.
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Each hour, on the hour, groups of three or four people, identified in court only by their juror badge numbers, would arrive.
    — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2022
  • On its official reintroduction on New Year's Eve, the bell rang at noon, 4 p.m., and every hour on the hour from 9 p.m. until midnight.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2022
  • If that were not enough bling, a collection of striking rainbow sapphires are set around the bezel with matching stones sitting on the hour indexes.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Many people who heard Reddy’s version on hit radio stations every hour on the hour in the summer of ’73 probably never guessed the lyrics were so dark.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2020
  • To help this person get through the night, Careline Alaska staff called them every hour, on the hour, until the person was safely contacted by troopers.
    — Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • Welfare checks occur on the hour, deputy director of operations Kenon Joseph said.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Someone needed to coordinate all of the lights and synchronize them to the music and short show, which happens on the square every evening on the hour from 5-9 p.m. That someone was Rohrer, who runs and manages Dither Studio.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Researchers head out every hour on the hour to track temperature and humidity.
    — Nancy Chen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But the past year has been different: With preschool shut for my girls, now 5, the fragile lines dividing family and work dissolved completely; at night, the swirling vortex of my mental load woke me on the hour.
    — Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2021
  • Hsieh is known for making endurance art: punching a work clock on the hour, every hour, for a year; living lassoed, rope around waist, to another person for a year; staying inside a cage for a year.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Its service was conducted outside in the courtyard, with blue Xs marking the spot where families could stand, two to an X. Services were held on the hour at a maximum of 70 attendees.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Each candidate will make presentations on the hour and be available for questions and conversation with the public.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2022
  • This quiet model, which has a 4.7-star rating on Amazon, is best suited for medium and large sized rooms and automatically does a scan of the air every 12 minutes on the hour.
    — Emily Belfiore, Health.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • High-touch interactives are also closed for now, but look for live programming on the hour with professional actors.
    — David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2020
  • Organizers plan to light up the condo building with the message every night for two minutes on the hour until all victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse are accounted for.
    — Time, 27 June 2021

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