spare time
Example Sentences
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In his spare time, he obsesses about where to find the perfect slice of New York-style pizza.Follow him on Twitter @CharlesPassy.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
Madigan was born in Chicago on September 11, 1950 to a journalist father and a mother who worked as an administrative assistant and did community theater in her spare time.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
Edwin Dorsey, the author of a financial newsletter who trades on Kalshi in his spare time, uses a database of Trump’s utterances to assess how often the president uses certain terms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
Those who flocked to Dawson Leery were the sort who spent their spare time at after-school club events and hamburger stands.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026
In his spare time, Louie crashed society weddings, worked as a movie extra, and harassed his housemates with practical jokes, replacing their deviled ham with cat food and milk with milk of magnesia.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
