idle hours

Example Sentences

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But in the bargain, you are freeing yourself from worry about aerodynamics or the chronic shortage of U.S. air traffic controllers and gaining access to ground-level scenery and idle hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

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

The effort to define, or merely understand, the relationship between Lawrence and Oppenheimer consumed the idle hours of many who knew or worked with them.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik