Sentence examples for Downtime from inspiring English sources

A preference for DiCaprio, though, isn't simply hormonal downtime – who you'd prefer when you're not choosing for genes – but rather an indication of preferences in the longer term.

This sounds horribly bossy for the first weekend of the school holidays, I know, but do you want to spend your downtime in a panic, grabbing random dresses out of your wardobe, discarding them and then having to hang them back up again?

The front office made productive use of the downtime, signing four starters to contract extensions and hiring a new announcing team following John Strong's ascension to "Voice of MLS" status with NBCSN.

French people working in the arts and entertainment – from circus clowns, choreographers, actors and musicians to camera operators and sound staff working at state TV – have a special dole system, designed to protect them in the downtime between jobs and sparing them the curse of out-of-work creatives elsewhere in the world: waiting tables or telesales.

Envisioned as a cultural palace for the people, free to enter, it was supposed to expand the minds of the city's factory workers in their downtime.

I soon learned that exploring takes time, children need downtime – and travel is more fun when you're having experiences rather than seeing sights.

What I have learned from my time in California is that everyone needs a little more "dude downtime", and the least we can do is pay people the minimum wage.

Everyone needs some downtime.

This is particularly useful in manufacturing processes where downtime is expensive, such as in car factories or paper mills.Monitoring systems are also appearing in more everyday settings, for example in ice-dispensing machines in supermarkets.

In the past, he says, students had a lot of downtime between lectures, and it made sense for the school to make the degree more intensive.

It took a few hours of work on the hosting firm's part not yours truly, who woke at 3 to check on progress after a few hours of literal and server downtime.