What is "by the hour"

Usage examples of "by the hour".

Dylan and Jilly chatted inanely about inconsequential things, like favorite movies, as though Hollywood-produced entertainments could possibly have serious relevance to them now that they had been set apart from the rest of humanity and were most likely by the hour traveling further beyond ordinary human experience.

But both of them took a new joy in everything, and the violin sang by the hour in the twilight.

Courtenay'd taken it for the view, putting up with the glorified towel boy at the front desk who charged by the hour, just as if she was a working girl.

The mountains hid the sun now, but the heat would grow by the hour once it climbed clear, and there would be no convenient tent to duck into at nightfall.

Ruby Bee manages to look the other way, but everybody knows that the majority of customers would rent rooms by the hour if they could.

Not just because the Windfinders were behaving more highhandedly by the hour.

And if Cochrane allowed his little army to spend too much time in Washington, the risk would grow by the hour that they might be cut off and captured by American forces coming to the capital city from the surrounding area.

A notable feature is the evening game of cards when lamps are set forth upon the terrace, and 'I and my pamily' play for tobacco by the hour.

He's gathered a following and he preaches to them by the hour in some of the far galleries.

Sometimes they'd ask me questions by the hour--I guess there was nothing they didn't know about the third degree!