Each bad called his wife; both women were inured to the interminable hours demanded at State, and claimed to understand.

The hours blended into one interminable hour that seemed to run forever.

Judith, who had not lost control for one moment during those interminable hours of flight and battle, bent her head and wept.

All day anticipation had been building as she waited for this moment, time seeming to tick backward during the interminable hours.

The sky was growing very dark in the final, interminable hour before dawn.

More than once, during those first interminable hours, his captors pulled up to wait in silence while troops of other horsemen passed nearby.

During the interminable hours of the flight, the package sustained them.

Yet that interminable final hour shouldn't detract from an overall impressive show.

Kirk sighed in relief when, after an interminable hour, the lecture part of the program came to a close and another orientation officer entered.

But the two interminable hours finally ticked by.