idle hours
Example Sentences
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When kids invent friends to play with, they’re showing how fertile they are with their idle hours, and how resilient and efficient the brain can be.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024
Stephen Lipman, a fine artist in the Bronx, feels it in the idle hours — once a cherished time to work on his art, now drained of ideas or motivation.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
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
Reluctantly, unwilling to give up the elegance he had felt on the flight, he taxied from the airport to the bus station and settled himself for two idle hours before the Greyhound left.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
