How to Use long hours in a Sentence

long hours

plural noun
  • Work ethic is showing up, putting in long hours.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Employees are putting in long hours to keep up with the surge.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Many kids grow up seeing the stress, the long hours and the complaints.
    — Anatoly Iofe, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • And Domingo said that long hours are all just part of a day’s work.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Lately, she’s been working long hours in the kitchen to help him out.
    — Peggy Hernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • No more hiding behind long hours.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The job demanded long hours on my feet and working with my hands.
    — Health, 20 May 2025
  • But long hours and low pay soon pushed him toward a more lucrative path.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
  • With the long hours, the hourly rate can dip below minimum wage.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
  • And the staff worked some long hours looking out for everything.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Like most soap operas, long hours and intense pacing are part of the job.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Public works who are already out for long hours trying to clean up the streets?
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2026
  • All those long hours of sewing inspired a song in the 1970s.
    — Nichole Marks, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There's a give-and-take to this—this Dad no doubt works long hours outside the home.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Her husband traveled for work and her daughter worked long hours on her new farm.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
  • By 1886, workers were fed up with the long hours and low wages.
    — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • My brother had worked long hours with my parents at their sign-making shop in high school.
    — Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Wage growth has begun to slow, for instance, and workers are no longer pulling such long hours.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • But the long hours were taking a toll on his wife, Amy, and their five young children.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Martha felt a creeping boredom in the long hours when nothing at all happened.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Someone who spends long hours in front of a screen may consider blue light lenses.
    — Footwear News, 12 June 2026
  • The Garden State actor added that the long hours on set played a huge role.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Students need to be willing to put in insanely long hours.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Yet, turning a fun side project into a thriving business takes more than long hours.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Reid is known for keeping long hours at the facility.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Rodriguez said the limited training and long hours weighed on her.
    — Dr. Eli Cahan, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Echo was subcontracting, which meant long hours for thin margins.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Moyes and his staff are working long hours at the training ground to try to inspire a longer-term revival.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • That’s likely because of the strain placed on the spine from long hours hunched over writing and the stress on the jaw joints.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The long hours, the high stakes, the personal risk — most of us accepted all of it as part of the deal.
    — Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026

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