Examples of twenty-four hours a day in a Sentence
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The small fleet of boats, old and new, runs twenty-four hours a day and serves more than sixteen million passengers a year.
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E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Their Countdown To Christmas, filling their networks with festive films twenty-four hours a day is celebrating 15 years this season.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
Classical music, which was thought to be calming for the wines and the workers, played twenty-four hours a day.
—Boris Fishman, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
The wait to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth’s coffin winds along the Thames River for roughly five miles of shoulder-to-shoulder British subjects in constant procession, twenty-four hours a day, from yesterday to Monday morning, just hours before the Queen’s funeral.
—Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022
This far north the sun held above them nearly twenty-four hours a day.
—Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
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E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Their Countdown To Christmas, filling their networks with festive films twenty-four hours a day is celebrating 15 years this season.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
Classical music, which was thought to be calming for the wines and the workers, played twenty-four hours a day.
—Boris Fishman, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
The wait to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth’s coffin winds along the Thames River for roughly five miles of shoulder-to-shoulder British subjects in constant procession, twenty-four hours a day, from yesterday to Monday morning, just hours before the Queen’s funeral.
—Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022
This far north the sun held above them nearly twenty-four hours a day.
—Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
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“Twenty-four hours a day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-four%20hours%20a%20day. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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