long hours

plural noun

: many hours at a time

She is used to working long hours.

Examples of long hours in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Staffing costs and availability are chief among the reasons, the organization adds, both because skilled individuals can’t be sourced in rural areas and because the traditional long hours and on-call schedules poses further hurdles for recruitment. —Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025

Lombardi often put in long hours running his family’s 17-year-old real estate business in São Paulo, Brazil, working alongside two of his older sisters. —Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025

Harvesting requires intense stretches of long hours during short windows of time to bring in and process crops, one reason that ag workers have been excluded from federal overtime requirements. —Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025

Our show is incredibly difficult to make at times with long hours, challenging stunts and elaborate disasters. —Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for long hours

• bowers
• flours
• flowers
• gowers
• ours
• scours
• showers
• sours
• towers
• cauliflowers
• overpowers
• superpowers