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Example sentences for "kill time"

  • Partly to reassure herself, partly to kill time, she went into her grandmother's room and brought back her cousin's latest photograph.

  • What do you do, little cousin, when you want to kill time?

  • Do you know, I think to 'kill time' is the most hideous, murderous phrase in the language.

  • An hour afterwards, going into the smoking-car, to kill time by a cigar, Harry looks out of the window, and they are at Echo.

  • He tried to kill time in reading, but he had to admit once more that he could not expect consolation from any book.

  • Yet I may as well wait a while," and to kill time, he occupied himself by reading a printed card, hung upon the wall.

  • Perhaps it was only for a constitutional, or to kill time; but there he was, lounging in the teeth of the gale, and whistling an opera air as he went.

  • Neither would Captain Cavendish, who went partly from curiosity, partly to kill time, partly to show himself in full uniform, and partly to hear Nathalie Marsh play and sing.

  • The fact is, Miss Page," he added mournfully, "I have hard work to kill time.

  • What you say of them is true enough, and I agree with you they are a profitless lot of trash, but what is a fellow going to do to kill time?

  • At first she had felt a little contempt for him, due to his complaints that he had hard work to kill time.

  • I'll get it out of my swag, and you can read it to kill time.

  • Of course, my object in recording it here is simply to kill time; for, to speak like a true man, I linger shivering on the brink of the disclosures to which I am pledged.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came nearer; children should; come doun; common type; conceal from; far off; felt rather; her bosom; kill herself; kill him; kill himself; kill myself; kill the; kill their; kill them; kill time; kill you; killed and; killed himself; killed them; killing them; little thought; over her; thin plates; what passes; what time did you