What is "rush-hour"

Usage examples of "rush-hour".

As we moved down the crowded platform, I noticed that most of the rush-hour commuters were dressed too warmly for the underground air, but seemed too tired to do anything but sweat.

The rush-hour traffic on all sides of the triangle was moving at about three feet a minute, a confusion of headlights and exhaust fumes.

I followed him onto the street, with its rush-hour traffic of frowning pedestrians and honking cabs, where he stepped behind a lamppost, put his laptop between his feet, and pulled out a phone.

And then, after a day and a night of looting in Brooklyn, the motorman of a rush-hour Brooklyn subway express, slowing to a block signal in a tube under the river, saw the phantom, impossible apparition of the Mole lying across the tunnel.

A bridge laden with rush-hour traffic has just collapsed at Gallipolis, Ohio.

And there were days that packed into the space of a few hours the concentrated essence of a music-hall knock-about sketch, an earthquake, a football scrummage, and the rush-hour on the Tube.

The six work shifts of the long Legis day overlapped to prevent this sort of rush-hour crowding, but the narrow corridors of the overstaffed station were always crowded, even in peacetime.

The Professor had regular panhandling patches for rush-hours, and evening haunts, but in the middle of the day he could be anywhere.

The street was unusually quiet: no rush-hour traffic or trash pickup on the day after Thanksgiving.