appointed hour
Example Sentences
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At the appointed hour, Luna fired the starting gun.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2025
A leading Lebanese analyst at a conference on the Middle East that I’m attending in Rome said she couldn’t sleep as the appointed hour for the ceasefire came closer.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024
As asylum seekers and organizers braced for the clearing, the appointed hour came and went with no police presence or trucks to haul garbage, as homeless encampment clearings usually have.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
Instead, upon the appointed hour, viewers were left staring at a spinning wheel to nowhere and fielding empty promises.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2023
But at the appointed hour the rider was nowhere to be found.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
