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

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

Now, it would be years before we could spend idle hours reading on the beach or walking along the shore, yakking.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2017

Her furrowed-brow, thinking-hard expression looked not unlike Penelope’s, although Penelope had no way of knowing that, as she was not the sort of person who spent her idle hours staring into mirrors.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood