The idea that it would be well to divert his mind, and render the hours less tedious, never occurred to her, or, if it did, she was totally at a loss to suggest any means of pleasantly whiling away the time.
Yes; dinner might assist in whiling away the time.
The ships are motionless, and the sailors and passengers are whiling away the time in various amusements.
They are immediately sated with Possession, and must necessarily fly to new Acquisitions of Beauty, to pass away the whiling Moments and Intervals of Life; for with them every Hour is heavy that is not joyful.
Women lounged about, whiling away the time with dance and song; and from all the corners of the glade the soft cadence of the Maori cry of welcome came floating to us on the breeze, sweet as the sound of distant bells.
When we drove on to the ground all was at a deadlock--the flagstaff bare, the chiefs sleeping in their wahres, and the common folk whiling away the hours with haka songs.
He had now thrown off his disguise, and was whiling away the time, after a good supper, with a quart of egg-hot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
