How To Use Twenty-four hours In A Sentence
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Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
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It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
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In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
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Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see.
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-- Members have been asked to surprise Secretary for Meetings Di Stefano which they instruct to attend a assembly during slightest twenty-four hours in allege of which meeting.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Day after day we're treated to an over-long British news sequence covering the ‘events’ of the preceding twenty-four hours on the campaign trail, and nit-picking over the meaning of the latest polls.
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I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock.
Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
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Now, if you look at the map, Mr. Tighe, you'll see that the isobar for this region shows a barometer pressure of 29.50, a terrific drop of four points in twenty-four hours.
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
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At last he consented that I should stay with him till just before daybreak, which is in that, as in most climates, the coolest time generally of the twenty-four hours.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
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By Sunday evening he hadn't given the far side of the river more than a casual glance for over twenty-four hours.
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A wooden door was now put up, and the baking was left to itself for about twenty-four hours, at the end of which time the lead would have become transformed into a yellowish powder, known as massicot.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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The Snow Leopard is a KGB operation which will culminate in the next twenty-four hours.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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About the tenth day, the discharge, which up to that time had been only sanious and serous, showed a slight admixture of slimy pus; and this increased till (a few days before I left) it amounted to about three drachms in twenty-four hours.
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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Twenty-four hours later, after what he termed "chirpy Blackburn fans" responded in kind, he decided to quit the social networking site, although the decision is thought to owe more to abuse his outspoken wife, Emma, has received in recent weeks.
Blackburn justify Steve Kean's optimism with defeat of Bolton
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He's been sweating it out in the genny house the last twenty-four hours.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Further, it was known that they had quarrelled just previous to pulling out; for the Lizzie, a wheezy ten-ton sternwheeler, twenty-four hours behind, beat Leclère in by three days.
BÂTARD
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Its engine grinds in the background, twenty-four hours a day.
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After having been on his feet twenty-four hours, in the exhausting work of mountain-climbing, Sir George began the reascent at the head of the relief party of six guides, to recover the corpse of his brother.
A Tramp Abroad
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Less than twenty-four hours later, he was up in the burn unit with a raging case of SJ.
BREACH OF DUTY
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Skin clothing is then the only thing that is of any use; but at this time of year, when the sun is above the horizon for the whole twenty-four hours, one can go for a long time without being more heavily clad than a lumberman working in the woods.
The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey
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Suppofe a common globe was turned round once in twenty-four hours — imagine an animal as much inferiour to it in fize as we are to the earth, placed as as I conceived the human fpeftatOf placed to view the earth — would the apprehenfion of this Being in - duce you to call a fingle revolution in twenty-four hours, whirling?
Thirty letters on various subjects ..
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A December gale had torn at the coast for a full twenty-four hours, and was now starting to abate.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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A Royal Navy frigate or minesweeper could be on station as well with twenty-four hours' notification.
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Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year.
They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2
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Her daughter then caught a fever that carried her off within twenty-four hours.
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Twenty-four hours later you make an anonymous phone call.
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Finally, it was time to go—Parker and I had had a memorable experience, a kind of dreamlike twenty-four hours—being with the president and first lady is very special.
Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
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They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.
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Nothing much, a bit of carelessness, yet enough to bring the professional wrath of Doctor Bicknell about his ears and to perturb the working of the staff and nurses for twenty-four hours to come.
SEMPER IDEM
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Many thanks, Philip, but before I adonize my outward man I should wish to satisfy my inward cravings; and, to tell you the truth, I'm so hungry from not having broken my fast for nearly twenty-four hours, that if you could order something to eat while you are looking out the clothes, I should feel in no small degree grateful.
The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago
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The canoe or "mun" is a large sheet of bark cut from the gum-tree, carefully lowered to the ground, and then heated with fire until it becomes soft and pliable, and can be moulded into form, it is then supported by wooden props, to keep it in shape, until it becomes hard and set, which is in about twenty-four hours, though it is frequently used sooner.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the M
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By Sunday evening he hadn't given the far side of the river more than a casual glance for over twenty-four hours.
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A December gale had torn at the coast for a full twenty-four hours, and was now starting to abate.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Get the Rand or Flank of Beef cut about a foot in length; bone it, and then mix two Ounces of Salt peter, with a good handful of common Salt: after which, carbonade the outward Skin of the Beef, and rub the whole well with the Salts, letting it lie for twenty-four hours in Salt before you collar it; but observing to turn it twice a day, at least, whilst it is in Salt.
The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm
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HE has gone away to Homel for twenty-four hours on business matters, and I want to pass all the evening and ALL the night in your place.
Yama: the pit
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Twenty-four hours after treatment, leaves were ground with a mortar and the expressed leaf extract was analyzed for proteinase inhibitor concentrations by radial immunodiffusion as described previously.
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The past twenty-four hours had been spent -- misspent -- in contact with Washington and Los Angeles.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The earth turns through one complete revolution approximately every twenty-four hours.
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Except for the twenty-four hours of biliousness, slippery guts and hasty exits that follow, it's all good.
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Twenty-four hours after transfection, the cells were harvested and the plasmid DNA recovered.
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For the next twenty-four hours, we waited, while he lay unconscious in the crisis center with tubes in his nose, wired up to an encephalogram machine, a respirator chugging.
On Becoming A Statistic
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The typical profile for a call jacker is if they don't use a stolen unit for twenty-four hours that means they've switched numbers.
Forgetfulness
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Men were sometimes on the beat twenty-one out of twenty-four hours during the transition between day and night duty.
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That equates to whirly conditions are approaching inside of twenty-four hours.
Tourists in Cancun, Cozumel prepare for Hurricane Ida; but direct ...
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The Egyptians probably measured their day in twenty-four hours of unequal length.
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But at last rose up Stephen the Eater and spake: "Meat and drink and lodging is free without price to every comer to Wethermel, and most oft, as here it is, our good will goes with it; yet meseemeth that since these friends of ours come belike from the outlands and countries where is more tidings than mostly befalleth here, it might please them to make us their debtors by saying us some lay, or telling us some tale; for we be not bustled to drink the voidee cup now, these nights of Midsummer, when night and day hold each other's hands throughout the twenty-four hours.
The Sundering Flood
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The doctor administered a shot of HCG, a drug that induces ovulation within twenty-four hours, and we returned on the following two mornings for intrauterine insemination, or IUI, procedures.
Times Two
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To reduce the size of the spleen, the Greek athletes used certain beverages, the composition of which was not generally known; the Romans had a similar belief and habit Pliny speaks of a plant called equisetum, a decoction of which taken for three days after a fast of twenty-four hours would effect absorption of the spleen.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Twenty-four hours may be adequate in a laboratory, but not on an assembly line.
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In a man-of-war, and in some merchantmen, this alternation of watches is kept up throughout the twenty-four hours; but our ship, like most merchantmen, had all hands from twelve oclock till dark, except in bad weather, when we had watch and watch.
Chapter III. Ship’s Duties-Tropics
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If it gets too damp you can always put the dehumidifier in to run for twenty-four hours.
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They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.
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Many thanks, Philip, but before I adonise my outward man I should wish to satisfy my inward cravings; and, to tell you the truth, I'm so hungry from not having broken my fast for nearly twenty-four hours, that if you could order something to eat while you are looking out the clothes, I should feel in no small degree grateful.
The Privateersman
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Twenty-four hours later, I was assembling the £50 Newborn flatpack, which arrived complete with fake fleece lining and a guide to whelping.
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Before twenty-four hours had passed, the last cherished fragment of Mr. William Henshaw's possessions had been carefully carried down the imposing steps of the Beacon Hill boarding-house under the disapproving eyes of its bugle-adorned mistress, who found herself now with a month's advance rent and two vacant "parlors" on her hands.
Miss Billy -- Married
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`So either you're depressed or you've aged very badly in the twenty-four hours since I last saw you, in which case I recommend Botox.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The Scot was tough, Stone told himself - could hang in there for at least twenty-four hours of grilling.
CORMORANT
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A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet, and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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Incisions are made into the alburnum of the seringueiras; below the wound small pots are attached, which twenty-four hours suffice to fill with a milky sap.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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The adobo marinade may be used to marinate raw meat for up to twenty-four hours before grilling or roasting.
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Twenty-four hours after a set of robotically performed electro-pop, the Old Town venue went up in smoke.
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This attack lasted eight or nine months, but in 1848 there was a recurrence accompanied by a slight trismus which lasted over eighteen months, and again in 1860 he was subjected to periods of sleep lasting over twenty-four hours at a time.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Always keep pets and children off lawns that have been sprayed with weedkillers until the spray has dried and preferably for twenty-four hours afterwards.
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Now look here… we haven't known each other for twenty-four hours, and you want me to be your princess bride?
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The obvious cure for these fallacies is enhanced education in relatively new fields such as economics, biology, and probability and statistics ... no matter how valuable a subject may be, there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and a decision to teach one subject is also a decision not to teach another one.
The Case for Teaching Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Any press availabilities the Morrison campaign had scheduled before the story appeared would be postponed for twenty-four hours in the hope that interest in it had already peaked by then.
O: A Presidential Novel
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A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid; which is only what they call a tidal islet; and except in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or at the most by wading.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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I looked at my watch and was startled to see I had slept for twenty-four hours straight.
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Twenty-four hours may be adequate in a laboratory, but not on an assembly line.
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It's a bowl you stick in the freezer for twenty-four hours, then slot onto your Kitchenaid with a special dasher attachment.
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She spent an anxious and sleepless night made worse by twenty-four hours without food.
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Among Muslims, burial must occur within twenty-four hours and be attended by Muslim officiants; Christian burial is also led by a local church leader.
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The patient may be required to wear splints twenty-four hours a day.
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If by any chance these animals are suffered to accompany the meat to the safe or larder, in the course of twenty-four hours the small white mawks increase to the length of one-eighth of an inch, and are found crawling in hundreds and moving about, as you have observed the yellow flies buzzing over the old and rotten carcass of a horse that has been exposed for weeks.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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Many of the rest accepted the offer of amnesty offered to those who surrendered within twenty-four hours.
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I'm not in principle a dedicated, old-style sabbatarian, but there are moments when I fully understand what that is about in its most positive sense -- and many of those moments happen when I'm enjoying a Sabbath eve meal with Jewish friends, when I realize just what it is to have twenty-four hours experienced as sheer gift and grace, to be welcomed like a bride.
An address by the Archbishop of Canterbury given to a meeting of the Alcuin Club at Lambeth Palace
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To assist in its fermentation, however, a little old pulque, _Madre pulque_, as it is called, which has fermented for many days, is added to it, and in twenty-four hours after it leaves the plant, you may imbibe it in all its perfection.
Life in Mexico
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But McClellan did not move quickly enough and within twenty-four hours, Lee learned of his danger and pulled his troops to Sharpsburg.
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His advisor signed off and within twenty-four hours, he was debarking in Orlando and renting a car to take him to the Home.
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My watch has gained ten minutes over the last twenty-four hours.
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Twenty-four hours later, Rumsfeld surveyed the fate decreed by other reorganisers for his bureaucrats.
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When, however, the wound is very large, the flow of blood and serum is so profuse, especially during the first twenty-four hours, that the antiseptic application cannot prevent the spread of decomposition into the interior unless it overlaps the sound skin for a very considerable distance, and this was inadmissible by the method described above, on account of the extensive sloughing of the surface of the cutis which it would involve.
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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It is possible to produce a mixed solution of aluminate and silicate of potash which will remain liquid for twenty-four hours.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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A sea-bred boy would not have stayed a day on Earraid, which is only what they call a tidal islet, and, except, in the bottom of the neaps, can be entered and left twice in every twenty-four hours, either dry-shod, or, at the most, by wading.
The Ontario High School Reader
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The trading deadline has arrived, with just over twenty-four hours left, and the Cavaliers reportedly are the first of the title contending teams to make a major move.
Gambling News
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The Scot was tough, Stone told himself - could hang in there for at least twenty-four hours of grilling.
CORMORANT
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On the 25th the German Ambassador proceeds to the Quai d'Orsay, to notify in comminatory terms that Berlin sides with Vienna; panic in the different Bourses; recall of the Austrian Ambassador from Belgrade, notwithstanding the almost complete acceptance of the draconian conditions he presented twenty-four hours before.
The Diary of a French Army Chaplain
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Evidently Trooper O'Connell during the past twenty-four hours had foraged or blarneyed most successfully for out of the knapsack which he had left behind Morrison suddenly produced a small earthenware jam jar in which was something now indubitably liquid in form but none the less sweet, yellow, appetizing butter.
The Littlest Rebel
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I should have come to you, Kate, but that grand rebukeful tone you had taken up this last twenty-four hours repelled me; and finally, I took counsel with myself.
Lord Kilgobbin
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A December gale had torn at the coast for a full twenty-four hours, and was now starting to abate.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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A wind called the bise had been blowing for the last twenty-four hours, and when we left Vevey the gale was so strong, that the steam-boat had great difficulty in getting ahead.
A Residence in France
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Corneas can be retrieved for transplantation as viable tissues, and so can skin, for even up to twenty-four hours after death in a conventional sense.
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Syringa and calycanthus ( 'sweet-shrub' -- faintly ill-scented!) were in blossom, and the brilliant pink godetia -- a name which may suggest nothing to the Eastern reader, but which to an old Californian like myself stands for all that is brightest and showiest in parched wayside gardens -- never made a more effective display; and all in all, though I had walked over the longer part of the same road within twenty-four hours, the day was a pure delight.
On Foot in the Yosemite
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When an inflamed area is examined, after twenty-four hours, by hardening the tissue in some of the fluids used for this purpose and cutting it into very thin slices by means of an instrument called a microtome, the microscope shows a series of changes which were not apparent on naked eye examination.
Disease and Its Causes
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And there aren't a passel of younger children around to give your daughters a close-up view of what having one of your own to care for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with no time off for good behavior, might look like.
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(Some prefer twenty-four hours, but there is more chance in this case of the product containing non-nitrated cellulose.)
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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The Egyptians probably measured their day in twenty-four hours of unequal length.
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Aim for 60g per twenty-four hours (I prefer bean curd or soja; it is chinchy, easy to fry - with fat-free Pam spray - and carries beaucoup protein).
Nine tips to lose weight for lazy human being
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For example, in Iceland I positioned myself at the same coordinates for twenty-four hours and continually recorded the sounds and images of that location.
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Twenty-four hours later we had emerged from the fog zone, and Hsu Fu looked like a busy laundry.
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A December gale had torn at the coast for a full twenty-four hours, and was now starting to abate.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Even the celebrated Jew himself, when well filled with calipash and calipee, goes contentedly home to tell his money, and expects no more pleasure from his throat during the next twenty-four hours.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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Twenty-four hours ago she had been barely aware of his existence; now he seemed to be taking over her life!
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We have what's called a "scrum," and we just set our objectives for the next twenty-four hours, the next week, or whatever it is, and we gradually developed the thing over time.
Mike Ragogna: Universal Pulses & Floating Cities: Chatting with 311's Nick Hexum and Thomas Dolby
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`And I've gone AWOL from the Beeb for twenty-four hours to break it to you!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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The adobo marinade may be used to marinate raw meat for up to twenty-four hours before grilling or roasting.
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Altogether the amount of fluid effused into the alimentary canal in twenty-four hours amounts to much more than the whole amount of blood in the body (which is 18 pounds in a man weighing 143 pounds); in other words, _every portion of the blood may, and possibly does, pass several times into the alimentary canal in twenty-four hours_.
Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
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The Snow Leopard is a KGB operation which will culminate in the next twenty-four hours.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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When the wind backed around into the northeast, as it had on this occasion, it foreran a gale of more than usual power and of more than twenty-four hours 'duration.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
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It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
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The post will self-destruct in a clever way after twenty-four hours.
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Security is a high priority in all military establishments, and sentries are constantly on patrol, twenty-four hours a day.
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We were also careful of the sun's rays because the hole in the ozone is above Antarctica; we wore forty-five level sunblock twenty-four hours a day.
Ann Bancroft - An interview with author
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The earth turns through one complete revolution approximately every twenty-four hours.
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(anemograph) for a period of twenty-four hours, Adelie Land
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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The periods of quotidian fever are either catenated with solar time, and return at the intervals of twenty-four hours; or with lunar time, recurring at the intervals of about twenty-five hours.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Twenty-four hours later, the hepatopancreas, gills and muscle tissue were removed from each animal.
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In any case, my mental state bordered on madness, and twenty-four hours of Paris sufficed to restore me to my equilibrium.
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Unlike gill nets, fish weirs were permanent structures that essentially allowed one man to ‘fish’ twenty-four hours a day.
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To test its escape in the urine, pass off your water in a clear glass pint bottle and let it stand twenty-four hours in a warm place; then hold up the bottle between yourself and the light, and if you discover a sediment of a +white, fleecy+ nature, resembling cotton, in the bottom, you are suffering from +hidden spermatorrhoea+, from which all your present ailments come.
Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.
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At first the question made no more sense than all the bewildering drivel and wild events of the past twenty-four hours - was it only a day and a night since I'd come to in that stinking doss-house?
THE NUMBERS
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Once a well was spudded in, the drilling went on twenty-four hours a day as long as the money lasted.
Wildcatter’s Woman
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&c. what fury is that, saith [3101] Dr. Gilbert, satis animose, as Cabeus notes, that shall drive the heavens about with such incomprehensible celerity in twenty-four hours, when as every point of the firmament, and in the equator, must needs move (so [3102] Clavius calculates) 176,660 in one
Anatomy of Melancholy
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After boarding a train and traveling for twenty-four hours toward the South and sunshine, he begins to lose a little the feeling that he is playing "hookey" and is liable to be dragged home and birched.
Keeping Fit All the Way
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`And I've gone AWOL from the Beeb for twenty-four hours to break it to you!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Absolute alcohol 60 c.c. Allow to stand twenty-four hours, then centrifugalise thoroughly and decant the supernatant fluid into a well-stoppered bottle.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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He was our coachman, and my father once had him arrested, on account of some paltry offence, for twenty-four hours.
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The typical profile for a call jacker is if they don’t use a stolen unit for twenty-four hours that means they’ve switched numbers.
The Blue Nowhere
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How does the ER meet national benchmarks for the basics, such as giving aspirin on arrival and beta-blocking drugs within twenty-four hours to heart-attack patients?
YOU The Smart Patient
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Twenty-four hours ago, I was buoyed by the confidence of having three plates fiercely spinning.
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She refused tinned sardines for lunch because by eating them she would make herself unclean and thus unfit to visit the temple for the next twenty-four hours.
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Less than twenty-four hours later, he was up in the burn unit with a raging case of SJ.
BREACH OF DUTY
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The earth turns through one complete revolution approximately every twenty-four hours.
