finest hour – English noun declension

English noun forms of finest hour

Noun: finest hour
Singularfinest hour
Pluralfinest hours

Sample Sentences

  • Winston Churchill proclaimed today to his Parliament and people the beginning of "the battle for Britain" […] "Let us brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour.’" [1940 June 18, “Churchill Says Hope Not Dead”, in San Jose Evening News, retrieved 28 Aug 2013, page 1:]
  • Commonwealth countries were called upon to rise to their finest hour against the double crises of Rhodesia and global poverty. [1979 August 2, Peter Calamai, “Analysis: It's brave words and bad vibrations”, in Edmonton Journal, Canada, retrieved 28 Aug 2013, page D20:]
  • The U.S. exulted 40 years ago when it brought its three Apollo 13 astronauts back safely from a disaster in space. Early Wednesday morning, Chile […] can celebrate its own finest hour as it rescues its 33 miners from the abyss. [2010 October 13, Tim Padgett, “Chile Celebrates As Miners Emerge from Underground”, in Time, retrieved 28 Aug 2013:]
  • Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning, the UK’s security minister, Tom Tugendhat, criticised “irresponsible speculation” and said it had not been “the BBC’s finest hour”. [2023 October 19, Daniel Boffey, quoting Tom Tugendhat, “Israel accuses BBC of ‘modern blood libel’ over reporting of hospital strike”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]

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