Sentence examples for filling in time from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

But I've misunderstood: I don't see that Rampling has a mobile at her ear, filling in time before my arrival with an interview for a French film website.

Improvising became restricted to organists noodling around hymns and fugues to fill in time at services.

This is a new venture and still quiet, with hours between messages, so Mr Thompson fills in time by sweeping the floor and tidying up.

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.

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.

Then to fill in time before joining the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Dr. Heymann treated workers constructing the oil pipeline on the North Slope of Alaska.