How to Use rush hour in a Sentence

rush hour

noun

• We got caught in the morning rush hour.
• Add the rush hour trip back home, and that gets to be a lot of work.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 27 June 2021
• This metro Phoenix city has one of the deadliest rush hours in the US.
  — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024
• Paul area, and likes to get out of the office, even during rush hour.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 16 June 2021
• As car traffic went up, the speed of rush hour went down, the report said.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
• Inside, the colony looked like a train station at rush hour.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The busses in Rome and Milan were crammed during rush hour.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
• Traffic on the main drag creeps as slowly as the on Mass. Pike at rush hour.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
• At the peak of rush hour, the northbound wait was often under an hour.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
• For the second time this week, snow will impact the morning rush hour.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• And that doesn't even address the nightmare of driving there at rush hour.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Morning rush hour around the Beltway could see some flakes, though.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• The sense of urgency is as intense as rush hour traffic on the way to work.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
• The Red Line is the only viable non-rush hour option for me and that is five miles away.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• The closure will continue through the evening rush hour.
  — Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024
• The subway trains, even at rush hour, are closer to empty than full.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• The twin blasts occurred amid the buzz of rush hour traffic and police closed part of a main highway leading out of the city.
  — Paul Goldman, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2022
• The video next shows Peters, 24, climb out of his car - naked - and run into heavy rush hour traffic.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2020
• For Buendia, that price was being shot to death on a busy street during rush hour.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 22 July 2021
• When freeways are busiest:Does metro Phoenix have rush hour traffic?
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• So at rush hour, the Jaba road was clogged with a long line of Palestinian buses, trucks, and cars.
  — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
• The rush hour traffic caused by commuters using the road to bypass jams on the highway had not yet picked up.
  — Menno Schilthuizen, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2022
• More light at night leads to fewer collisions on roads during the evening rush hour.
  — WIRED, 11 Mar. 2023
• Many drivers stuck in the morning rush hour traffic honked in support.
  — Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• The restaurant rush hour is usually in the afternoon, as that is lunchtime for many.
  — Noé Sandoval, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
• Flexible work schedules could soften rush hour and spread crowds out through the day and week.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 May 2021
• The Metro is the most efficient way to cover longer distances, though it's best avoided at rush hour.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• Theater lovers may miss the lobby hum and curtain call roar, but rush hour traffic is a hard habit to restart.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• Like Uber prices that spike during rush hour, grocers would be able to increase the price of ice cream on a hot day, or hot chocolate during a snowstorm.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
• Monday after an apparent head injury sustained in an accident on his e-bike during rush hour in Los Angeles.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024