waking hours

plural noun

: the hours in the day that a person is awake

He spent all his waking hours working on the project.

Examples of waking hours in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yet boys spend more waking hours with teachers and coaches than with almost any other adults outside their families. — Wes Moore, STAT, 1 July 2026

Participants were assigned to take a five-minute walk at a comfortable pace every 30 minutes, every 60 minutes or every 120 minutes during their waking hours. — ABC News, 24 June 2026

School nurses are the largest and most widely distributed trusted public health workforce serving American children who spend 1,000 waking hours a year in school. — Jordan Schriver, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2026

On day two, the icing schedule is 20 minutes on, 40 minutes off during waking hours and by day three, icing can typically be stopped. — Michele Promaulayko, Allure, 17 June 2026

Rhymes for waking hours

• devours
• empowers
• sunflowers
• bowers
• flours
• flowers
• gowers
• ours
• scours
• showers
• sours
• towers