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How to use whiling away in a sentence

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These are the best places for whiling away lazy afternoons in amusing, light-hearted conversations with the often-quirky fellow hostel mates.
A movie seemed like a top idea, a way of hiding in the darkness of a lounge, whiling away the hours.
Anyhow, it's a scorcher of an afternoon, perfect for whiling away a couple of hours in the sunshine.
Julia Blake plays Claire, a refined and elegant beauty whiling away the rest of her life in a stagnant marriage to John.
Here you will find a number of great wee shops which are perfect for whiling away an afternoon browsing among the treasures.
And on weekdays the public squares of Madrid are filled with the unemployed — young and old — whiling away the hours.
On the other end, whiling away the hours by the sleek, heated pool was free, as were the flip-flops left by my bed during turndown.
Instead of stopping them from whiling away the hours, time management has given them more hours to while away.
I quite like the thought of it being written in a staff room by bored and bearded school teachers, puffing on pipes and whiling away dreary lunch breaks.
They end up in Wyoming, whiling away their time there by falling for each other all over again.
But have you noticed something else while whiling away the hours in front of the box?
She was shopping for shoes, as if she were in a salon, whiling away the time while her nails were drying.
She's a writer too, whiling away the hours between clients by penning murderous fantasies about them.
The most common danger is unproductively whiling away the hours without anything to show for it.
Perfect for whiling away sunny afternoons in the garden.
Aid donors shake their heads at the sight of slightly glassy-eyed Yemeni men whiling away each afternoon, their cheeks distended with tennis-ball-sized gobs of masticated leaves.
Shikara owners are whiling away time playing carrom and other indoor games.
To them, deficit countries are the profligate grasshoppers whiling away their hours in the sun, while the surplus countries are ants prudently husbanding resources in anticipation of winter.
Just when they are happily whiling away their days in their little corner of paradise, they discover that the ice is melting and threatening to flood their valley: run for your life, it's the big meltdown!
Most of the time, though, Mr Harrison manages to keep his purplish tendencies in check, and Schopenhauer himself might have enjoyed whiling away an idle afternoon on the beach with this superior thriller.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The company were divided into little chattering parties, as is usual when people are whiling away an half hour before dinner.
He tried every means of whiling away the time, but it never had seemed to move so slow.
During some parts of the trip such means of whiling away the hours was very desirable, if not a necessity.
The master is with his fathers or he is whiling away his last days on the courthouse steps of the town.
So were they whiling away the evening of this memorable day, and I left them.
Roy's regiment in camp near the Tennessee river was whiling away its time as best it could.
To Passengers on board a Ship, here are ample materials in a narrow compass for whiling away the monotonous hours of a sea voyage.
Montmorency had invited two other dogs to come and see him off, and they were whiling away the time by fighting on the doorstep.
Surely there could be no pleasanter room for whiling away a summer day.
This grisly television programme seems quite a reasonable idea for whiling away the few hours before the day job of slave driver starts again.
It was Ross Davidge, whiling away an hour between appointments.
But dive into its wormhole of options and tactics and you may just be surprised to find yourself whiling away light years in its simulated space-faring sandbox.
I therefore faced my first visit with some foreboding and with the expectancy of purely whiling away some two hours, appreciating only its wonderful music.
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