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killing time
verb as in waste time
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Why would I want to sign up, receive all that training, and end up sitting on a base somewhere just killing time.
“We know the Americans are killing time until the November election,” the former minister says.
Buzzell first shot to fame in 2005, with the publication of his combat memoir My War: Killing Time in Iraq.
Colby Buzzell is the author of the book My War: Killing Time In Iraq.
Nor can I see, now, where we accomplished anything beyond killing time the following day.
And Miss Ellison had said, "You're quite brave at killing time, aren't you?"
To the West alone belongs the credit of manufacturing that article for the sake of killing people instead of merely killing time.
And then she thought of Mr. Philip Hadley with his summer devices for killing time.
We've been killing time here for a good half hour, waiting for you.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to kill time, such as: amuse oneself, consume time, fritter away time, have leisure, idle away time, and pass the time.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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