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View definitions for pass time

pass time

verb as in lounge

verb as in mark time

verb as in vegetate

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Example Sentences

He himself said that he only wrote for fun, to pass time, but no matter, he was turned into a heavy Hampstead cult.

I said, it was long enough, and good enough to pass time that might be worser spent.

It was not exactly his vocation, he said, but he would do it to pass time and just out of friendship for his neighbor.

This served to pass time in September, and the extravagant demands of both parties still further prolonged the proceedings.

When confined in prison he made a flute or pipe out of the leg of his three legged-stool, and would play on it to pass time.

As he grew older, and became disabled for hard work, he began translating the Psalms into verse, to pass time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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