How to Use kill (the) time in a Sentence

kill (the) time

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• So, with a hard and fast deadline looming, one of the best ways to kill bills is to kill time.
  — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
• Banks also has to kill time with the dancers while the judges tabulate the results.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Of all the ways to kill time and find a new outlet for your chart-topping artist's mind, why makeup?
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 11 Aug. 2020
• The jam sessions were intended just to kill time, Davis says.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 11 Nov. 2021
• Most people kill time on a plane by reading a book, watching a film or even taking a nap.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
• Miles will spend the next few years darkly depressed, shooting dope, trying to kill time.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
• Trying to kill time with a run on the next play, Aboushi drew a holding penalty that stopped the clock.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2020
• Kids tend to play silly games so teachers and room parents can kill time at classroom parties.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2020
• Extra bathroom breaks, coffee chats and hoping for meetings to kill time.
  — B.d. Dalton, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• After all, there are only so many Netflix shows and loaves of banana bread to bake to kill the time.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2020
• My days are filled with going to the bookstore and going on the computer just to kill time and get out of the house.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• Comic-Con panel in order to kill time for a tardy Kevin Smith?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• Tenants facing eviction stare straight ahead and clutch court documents that are rolled up in their fists, or kill time on their phones.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• Shopping for the best Amazon deals can be a great way to kill time, save money and get useful stuff for around the house.
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2020
• Resist the temptation to kill time by looking at your phone—those screens really blow out your night vision.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• To kill time at the hotel, some Whitecaps players use a golf simulator to work on their swing.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2020
• Learning how to kill time To back up the bark and bite, the Coyotes need to do a great job of building a strong penalty kill.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• With three Oilers around him, the Bruins defenceman tried to send the puck back to a teammate out of the zone to kill time.
  — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• On some of those days, Stan would kill time by wandering Manhattan in full makeup until his call time.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
• While waiting for a flight at an airport earlier this year, Erika Vidrio went to a bookstore to kill time.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 15 June 2022
• This explains why so many freshly single folks may start swiping—not to find someone new, but to kill time until their ex slides back into the picture.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 22 July 2025
• On Sunday, trying to kill time with a run on the next play, Oday Aboushi drew a holding penalty that stopped the clock.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2020
• In the incongruously beautiful medieval city of Bruges, the pair kill time and try not to kill each other.
  — Christina Newland, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• How do Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray kill time between concerts?
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2022
• Her older daughter has been reading, baking and completing workbooks to kill time while McGriff is at her job.
  — Morgan Smith, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• While Lewinsky waited for Lewis to make the journey via train, Lewinsky roamed the mall for several hours in a bid to kill time.
  — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• At the entrance to a downtown subway station, Tracy Hellams sits on the ground burning the hanging threads on her jeans with a lighter to kill time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• Coach Brandon Staley explained later that the ball was supposed to be thrown out of bounds in order to kill time and set up a field-goal attempt to close the half.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• Even the boring parts—watching people kill time, waiting around to play or for inspiration to strike—seem freighted with possibility.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• In the sprawling food court, travelers feast on döner kebab or kill time at Kaimakk with a cup of black coffee traditionally prepared in hot sand.
  — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2024