idle hours

Example Sentences

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During idle hours in Vienna, State Department officials would debate who would portray top negotiators in a movie version of the Iran deal.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2018

Now some schoolchildren are spending more time at the soccer field or the skating rink while parents are kept anxiously waiting and trying to fill those idle hours.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2018

Not because I hate sleeping in, going to yoga class, and hanging out with the people I love, but because idle hours tempt me to check Facebook.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2016

And, Axelrod might have noted, there is plenty of time to fill the idle hours with fantastical scenarios while an adrenaline-addled press corps waits for results.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2016

Looking for something to fill his idle hours with, Gaston became accustomed to spending the morning in Melquíades’ room with the shy Aureliano.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez