Examples of 'finest hour' in a sentence

Meaning of "finest hour"

finest hour: The term 'finest hour' typically denotes a period in a person's life or a critical moment in history when they perform their best, show their greatest strength, or achieve a notable success
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  • A point in time or a relatively brief period of time when an especially distinguished, admirable, or effective set of actions is performed.
  • June 18 1940, “Churchill Says Hope Not Dead”, in San Jose Evening News, retrieved 2013-08-28, page 1: 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.’"
  • 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.’"
  • August 2 1979, Peter Calamai, “Analysis: It's brave words and bad vibrations”, in Edmonton Journal, Canada, retrieved 2013-08-28, page D20: Commonwealth countries were called upon to rise to their finest hour against the double crises of Rhodesia and global poverty.

How to use "finest hour" in a sentence

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finest hour
His finest hour was in recruiting yours truly.
Tonight was not my finest hour as a sports fan.
The history books record it as yöur finest hour.
His finest hour was his final hour.
So maybe this was not our finest hour.
Not my finest hour back there.
Does not seem like your finest hour.
Your finest hour you had the power.
I think it will have to be her finest hour.
This was not exactly my finest hour in terms of results.
Britain is not experiencing its finest hour.
The finest hour of the day.
This has not exactly been my finest hour.
This is her finest hour yet and it shows.
They kill people at their finest hour.

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Its finest hour came when.
That was living history at its finest hour.
Not my finest hour as a teacher.
The history books record it as your finest hour.
This was my finest hour as a nurse.
I readily admit it was not my finest hour.
This was not the finest hour for our newspapers.
That really was not my finest hour.
Our finest hour.
Definitely not our finest hour.
Your finest hour.
I consider that our finest hour.
The finest hour.
This may be our finest hour.
My finest hour.
This will be our finest hour.
This will be our finest hour if we show love for one another.
This could be our finest hour.
His finest hour was the defeat of immigration reform three years ago.
This really is not my finest hour.
Your finest hour you had the power when you are not there.
Not exactly our finest hour.
It was not my finest hour but if it happened for real I would protect you.
Churchill called it their finest hour.
This has not been the finest hour of the political classes.
I would say it was not my finest hour.
That was probably the finest hour in the history of the CSCE to date.
And it will be our finest hour.
But in her finest hour she defeated Davros and saved the universe.
This is not your finest hour.
Finest Hour is truly great television.
I thought we already established that was not my finest hour.
Not their finest hour.
I wanted the whole team there to witness my finest hour.
This will either be the finest hour or the darkest day.

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