pass time
Example Sentences
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Enclosed by tall metal bars, detainees at the Ponte Galeria detention and deportation center near Rome, where Sylla died, walk around in circles and kick balls to pass time.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024
We make ourselves at home in places where we need to pass time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024
America’s pastime was always unique in — and at times even proud of — its ability to pass time, to proceed unhurried by reality until the game decided it was complete.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023
“Walmart Land” wants to become an entertainment destination in the metaverse, the virtual reality arena for people to play games and pass time.
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2022
She’d been planning to work in her flower beds, the way she usually did to pass time between orphans, but she was currently facing a conundrum.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
