How to Use rush hour in a Sentence

rush hour

noun
  • We got caught in the morning rush hour.
  • No more long commutes in rush hour.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Add the rush hour trip back home, and that gets to be a lot of work.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 27 June 2021
  • Some of them come early so they don’t get stuck in the rush hour line.
    — National Geographic, 30 Jan. 2020
  • That short trip, in the latter part of rush hour, took me more than an hour.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 4 June 2026
  • Buses get all green lights during rush hour.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By morning rush hour, just one lane of traffic was closed.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That’s when they got stuck in rush hour traffic on the freeway.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The ordeal caused roads around the business to be closed around rush hour.
    — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 July 2018
  • Paul area, and likes to get out of the office, even during rush hour.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 16 June 2021
  • Most trains will have time to make just one run before the busiest part of rush hour is over.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Just keep in mind surge pricing can kick in during rush hour or big events.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
  • As car traffic went up, the speed of rush hour went down, the report said.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • That’s much faster than the bus and slightly faster than a car during rush hour.
    — Wendy Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
  • At rush hour, cars caught in traffic jams jump curbs and roll over sidewalks to get ahead.
    — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The road is likely to remain closed through the morning rush hour.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
  • At the peak of rush hour, the northbound wait was often under an hour.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But the problem was not limited to rush hour.
    — Theo Karantsalis, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
  • The crash happened in the midst of the afternoon rush hour.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Morning rush hour around the Beltway could see some flakes, though.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • For the second time this week, snow will impact the morning rush hour.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The subway trains, even at rush hour, are closer to empty than full.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
  • And that doesn't even address the nightmare of driving there at rush hour.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Here are six teachable moments from the rush hour downpour.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Go see what happens in the morning, midday, rush hour, and in the evening.
    — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The last 45-minute shuttle (or longer in rush hour) is at 11am.
    — Dave Lozo, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • But this tends to ruin everyone’s rush hour.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The 2 stops at all times, but some 5 trains skip the station during rush hour.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • The sense of urgency is as intense as rush hour traffic on the way to work.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The travel club is warning that that the afternoon rush hour will be the worst.
    — Tessa Weinberg, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018

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