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

For decades, Jafari has spent most of his waking hours thinking about the minutiae of wiping the virus from the face of the Earth. — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

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

Rhymes for waking hours

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