Forty Hours

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.

Example Sentences

Forty hours later, Sparrow was in Kazakhstan.

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

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Pocker says he puts more than forty hours of work into the account every week and has spent hundreds of dollars on camera equipment, lights and editing software.

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For a good “two and forty hours,” she will seem dead, he tells her, “and then awake as from a pleasant sleep.”

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Forty hours of CIT training can’t compete with the hundreds of hours of firearms and tactical training officers receive and a command-and-control law enforcement culture.

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