Sentence examples for filled in time from inspiring English sources

After graduating from Norfolk, in 1943, Carson enrolled in the Navy's V-12 program, but training did not start until the fall, so he filled in time by hitchhiking to California.

Dripping wet from pushing through the jungle of green leaves, grazing on a diet of raw bauhilde bean and blackberries, their carrier bags were filled in time for supper.

For the next five years she filled in time at the cinema in winter, on the beach in summer, while waiting to service Picasso in studio or beach hut.

While the BBC's sports department in London, led by Peter Dimmock, was scouring the metropolis desperately for the shy hero (who was lying low in Clement Freud's restaurant at the Royal Court theatre in Sloane Square), they filled in time with an interview by a fresh-faced newcomer from the Midlands of the popular Argentinian golfer Roberto de Vicenzo.

A number of coaches have expressed an interest in the role  which Argyle owner James Brent had hoped would be filled in time for the visit of Crawley Town on Saturday.

I later learnt... you were filling in time before you caught a plane".

I don't know what I expected -- perhaps retired English teachers filling in time between rounds of golf.

Ali had avoided draining himself too severely in this early period, especially in the sixth and eighth, by filling in time with some highly calculated comedy.

Stoppard no doubt hung around a lot backstage as a journalist in Bristol – he would have seen actors filling in time.

Indeed, the transitory condition of elected office is, for most Alliance politicians, merely filling in time before their inevitable quango appointment.

To be honest, we're just filling in time with inane waffle, it's what you have to do on the internet these days it seems.