How to Use eleventh hour in a Sentence

eleventh hour

noun

• There have been a lot of eleventh hour telephone talks.
  — Katie Nicholl, Vanities, 15 May 2018
• Don’t expect a deal until the eleventh hour, but there must be a deal.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 Apr. 2023
• Waiting for the eleventh hour to consider a must-pass funding bill is no way to run the government.
  — Steven Lemongello, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Rooney has no memory of the eleventh hour photo reveal.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• The bill was proposed last week at the eleventh hour of this year’s General Assembly session.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
• The show continues to take risks through the eleventh hour, shifting gears halfway through the season in an audacious twist.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• Inventories will be slimmer in the eleventh hour, but hotels may still cut prices on unsold rooms.
  — Harriet Baskas, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Period dramas were out of fashion among film buyers at the time, apparently, and a key financier pulled out of the project at the eleventh hour.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
• The resolution came in the eleventh hour, after the jury was in place and reporters and lawyers had waited for hours for opening statements to begin.
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• One of those plans was rewritten at the eleventh hour in an attempt to protect downtown garment businesses from being pushed out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• Tennessee was the first state to pass a law banning drag performances in public, although the measure was blocked by a federal judge at the eleventh hour.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• The industry is currently on watch, wondering if that drastic move will actually come to fruition, or if the two sides will come to an armistice at the eleventh hour to avoid an all-out war.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• Even the Pakistan cricket team were only able to obtain visas at the eleventh hour, after complaints of a delay in the process which the Pakistan Cricket Board said disrupted the team’s preparation for the event.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• The sides have negotiated for years and as the eleventh hour approaches, Angelos and Moore have assured fans that a long-term lease will soon be finalized.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
• Mexico, which has funded the defense, has mounted an eleventh hour campaign to stay the execution.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
• The newly mature Leon is thoughtful and expansive, yet there is something garish about his transformation at the eleventh hour.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
• Then, in late September, the U.S. seemed to be barreling toward what would have been one of the largest government shutdowns in history but again struck an eleventh hour agreement to keep the government open.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Despite his eleventh hour volte-face, Meadows might well have already delivered the probe new information of interest in the form of 6,000 pages of documents.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
• The brewing conflict came to a head during eleventh hour state budget negotiations in Albany.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2021
• Now Johnson will also be known for having her voice and image placed next to President Trump’s own appeal, in the eleventh hour of his impeachment trial, for reelection.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2020
• Kiyoko is met with a revolving door of potential suitors trying to make their mark before Tilley, 33, makes an eleventh hour limo entrance, exchanging a knowing smile with Kiyoko.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• Despite the eleventh hour switcheroo, which almost certainly diminished some support, 49 Democrats and 98 Republicans still joined to support, although the measure fell short of passage.
  — Time, 17 July 2023
• Despite the involvement of a federal mediator who was brought in at the eleventh hour to help resolve the conflict, groups representing the actors and the studios were unable to agree to a new film and TV contract before a Wednesday night deadline.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Selected to host, at the eleventh hour, was Jo Koy, a highly successful comedian who’s used to performing in big rooms to thousands of fans, largely about Filipino culture, but here seemed out of proportion, out of his depth and a fish out of water.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Merrill said that New Haven’s voter problems were largely a result of enormous crowds appearing at the eleventh hour due to issues with Yale University students’ absentee ballots.
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Negotiations ultimately came down to the eleventh hour heading into Spotify's fourth quarter earnings on the morning of Feb. 5.
  — Natalie Jarvey, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2020
• Budget disagreements typically drag out as both parties fight to include their own priorities, with a final deal often not made until the eleventh hour after a marathon voting session.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 26 July 2023
• But Williamson dropped out at the eleventh hour, after revelations about extensive overseas travel funded by her political action committee while in office.
  — oregonlive, 2 May 2023
• Alabama passed a bill at the eleventh hour requiring students to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender assigned at birth and enacted education policies similar to Florida’s.
  — Emma Hinchliffe and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 6 July 2022
• The move reverses an eleventh hour decision by Donald Trump in the final days of his administration that brought backlash from bipartisan politicians and humanitarian organizations.
  — Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir and Charbel Mallo, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024