How to Use long hours in a Sentence

long hours

plural noun

• Many kids grow up seeing the stress, the long hours and the complaints.
  — Anatoly Iofe, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
• And playwrights do get some things right: The long hours.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
• By 1886, workers were fed up with the long hours and low wages.
  — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• 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
• And Domingo said that long hours are all just part of a day’s work.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Lambing is hard and messy, with long hours and late nights.
  — Brian Mann, NPR, 20 Apr. 2025
• The Garden State actor added that the long hours on set played a huge role.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
• Lately, she’s been working long hours in the kitchen to help him out.
  — Peggy Hernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• 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
• But the long hours were taking a toll on his wife, Amy, and their five young children.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
• New York is a city of long hours, tiny kitchens, cramped apartments—and dining out, a lot.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
• With the long hours, the hourly rate can dip below minimum wage.
  — Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
• The job demanded long hours on my feet and working with my hands.
  — Health, 20 May 2025
• That first night — as on others — LaVey and Davis spent long hours discussing the tenets of Satanism.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• And the staff worked some long hours looking out for everything.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• The heavy equipment, the long hours, the patience required to stand there and drill a hole forever.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
• The long hours have taken a toll on her physical health.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• That sounds like a story Glen Powell might’ve told during your long hours in the truck.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• The ride featured wide temperature swings, long hours in the saddle, and a lot of dust.
  — William Roberson, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Chu’s father put in long hours at a Chinese restaurant in Watts.
  — Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• And they were equally dedicated to the long hours in the gym required to reach the highest level in the sport.
  — Alice Park/paris, TIME, 31 July 2024
• 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
• For me, the time has been filled working long hours with colleagues to try to figure out how all this happened.
  — Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• But long hours and low pay soon pushed him toward a more lucrative path.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
• Her husband traveled for work and her daughter worked long hours on her new farm.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
• In her three decades in the industry, Laird has had her fair share of people who back out at the last minute because of the low pay and long hours.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2025
• 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
• We clerks spent long hours on perimeter guard because infantry units were dead exhausted when back in from the bush.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
• In Indiana, children in the early 1900s often worked long hours at dangerous jobs.
  — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 2 July 2025