Sentence examples for just passing time from inspiring English sources
She keeps scrolling, though, almost as if she's just passing time.
And the waiters serving boisterous crowds on porches are just passing time until they can keep time in the music business.
Williams and Walters had spent part of the afternoon driving around in the Corsa, just passing time and showing off to girls in the neighbourhood, Walters later testified.
They weren't just passing time: the women multitask as D.J.'s, open mic night hosts, waitresses and accountants for this small restaurant and rooftop lounge, which they opened with their family late last year.
An open kitchen promises drama — flames do shoot up from the main wok now and then — but the conspicuously un-Chinese crew already seems to be just passing time.
"He was self-confident and very soft-spoken, believe it or not, as if he knew he was just passing time until he went on to something greater," said classmate Michael Pitkow.
There are plenty of things we do to just pass time in life – TV shows, airport fiction, eating – and they aren't inherently evil things, there's just much better things to do with your time.
Nelson Mandela, a true hero of our generation and a leader who played a meaningful role in my leadership journey, said, "A vision without action is just a dream; an action without a vision just passes time; but a vision with an action plan can change the world". We must all contribute.
"I describe my reader as an upwardly mobile individual, not someone who is just here passing time, but someone who is trying to advance his situation," Mr. Blanco said.
"There was some air about him," recalled Michael Pitkow, "as if he knew he was just there passing time until he went on to something greater.
