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

He had entered the country by way of Mexico, riding in a wagon drawn by a tobacco-chewing man who had turned out to be, in his spare time, the local judge.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara