kill time
kill time
English
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Definition
To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.
Example Sentences
- "She had nothing better to do, so she went to the bowling alley to kill time."
- "Mrs. Autumn […] lay in bed always till it was very late this being one of those happy expedients for killing time (as the fashionable phrase is) which, to discover, employs the inventions of persons of rank and fortune."
- "I had no intention of delivering my letter at the present moment, nor have I. But strolling on to the Bank to kill time, and having the good fortune to observe at the window […] a lady of a very superior and agreeable appearance, I considered that I could not do better than take the liberty of asking that lady where Mr. Bounderby the Banker does live."
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