Forty Hours

American  

noun

1. a Roman Catholic devotion in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration for 40 hours by the churches of a diocese sequentially for two-day periods.

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Example Sentences

It should be easy to undo forty hours.

From Literature

And I have to do forty hours of community service repairing the park.

From Literature

“I'm being punished right now. I don’t see you stepping up and taking your forty hours of community service. So don’t pretend you’re sorry. You just feel sorry for me. And I don’t need that from you or Leo or that jerk Taylor.”

From Literature

She’s even gone down to working only forty hours a week instead of her usual sixty.

From Literature

Forty hours later, Sparrow was in Kazakhstan.

From Seattle Times