How to Use hour-long in a Sentence

hour-long

adjective
  • There are eight hour-long episodes.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • An hour-long première for the troupe is in the works.
    — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • Bagel takes up about ten minutes of the hour-long special.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The hour-long concert will feature two pieces.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The new season will consist of eight hour-long episodes.
    — Giana Levy, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Each season will consist of six hour-long episodes.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • That leaves only four more hour-long episodes to sink your teeth into.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 14 July 2023
  • The mountain bike trails are a muddy churn with hour-long queues at the top.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Dreher was there to greet them, after an hour-long train ride from Paris.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Part 1 of You proved this, its hour-long episodes dragging along.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • All six hour-long episodes will debut on Peacock.
    — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Their hour-long Zoom supplied more than a roadmap to reputable providers.
    — Jolene Edgar, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Your work is synonymous with these hour-long one-take sequences.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
  • That is remarkably cheap for an hour-long drama.
    — James Sneed, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Sadly, the hour-long movie’s print was lost in a fire in 1961.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • Hulu has ordered eight hour-long episodes, though a premiere date has not yet been set.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And then maybe a strict hour-long meditation.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
  • What was once an hour-long wait before March has become an hour and a half of late.
    — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • This features a half-hour scrub, a half-hour bubble bath, and an hour-long massage.
    — James Rampton, theweek, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Her roughly hour-long talk appeared to resonate.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The hour-long service, which was livestreamed, was mostly filled with music, singing and prayer.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This means a single hour-long walk a few times per week can put someone on track to meet that benchmark.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Our group disembarked and hopped on an hour-long boat cruise on Loch Ness.
    — Vicki Denig, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
  • Here are some of the takeaways from his hour-long question-and-answer session.
    — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
  • This tool has 12 blade options that cut our hour-long prep times into minutes.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
  • But imagine my surprise when I was immersed in an hour-long, slow, deep stretch.
    — Jasmine Browley, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2024
  • This is another easy day trip that can be done via an hour-long train journey from Madrid.
    — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This way, an hour-long program can be cut down to a tight eleven minutes, leaving the rest of the hour for ads.
    — Susanna Wolff, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Narrated, hour-long tours run daily, with a fare of $28 for adults.
    — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
  • By the end of the four-hour-long audition, only 13 skaters would move on.
    — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 10 June 2026

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