waking hour/moment

noun

: the time that a person is awake

I spent every waking hour/moment thinking about how to fix the problem.

Examples of waking hour/moment in a Sentence

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Not when your opponent is spending its each and every waking moment scouring film for even the slightest advantage. —Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2025

The presence of an easily searchable database capturing a machine’s every waking moment would also be a bonanza for others who don’t have users’ best interests at heart. —Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025

Unable to keep still and reluctant to pause, the 49-year-old came across as the aural and visual personification of someone who lives and breathes music every waking hour. —Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025

Think of Tursi, 44, having spent every waking moment of his adult life as a working, touring musician and frequent songwriter. —Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025

What's This? January 22, 2025 Digital noise surrounds our every waking moment. —Rhett Power, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025

Williamson says pilots have very little downtime in between shifts, with almost every waking moment devoted to gearing up for the next one. —Kristin Jenny, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025

But inquiries like this can feel like a lot of pressure when every waking hour of my life is filled with anxiety over when this baby will be born. —Melissa Willets, Parents, 9 Jan. 2025

This effectively means one half of them has a perpetual holiday, free from work, while the other is condemned to spend every waking moment at work, unable to escape their dull, dreary office underground. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025