| After breaking her leg in a tobogganing accident, Lilias whiled away her long convalescence by drawing and studying her father's sketchbooks. |
| Then, yacht-rock was derided as a soundtrack for affluent types who whiled away hours luxuriating aboard yachts. |
| We whiled away a pleasant half-hour before Marvin signalled that it was medication time back at the Day Centre. |
| They whiled away the hours discussing topics of galvanism and the occult while writing their own supernatural stories to help pass the time. |
| I would have perhaps whiled the time away in such a state had not a scent, borne on the ebony breezes, suddenly caught my attention. |
| Both parties then returned to the House chamber where they whiled away a non-productive afternoon in thunderous denunciations of each other. |
