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

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

Forty hours into the game, it is clear that most of its content remains unseen.

From New York Times