Sentence examples for vacant hours from inspiring English sources

"vacant hours" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to times when you are not occupied with something. For example: "I spent my vacant hours at the local library, reading and studying for upcoming tests."

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It was when she quit those teams in her midteens, her father said, that she stumbled into trouble, filling the vacant hours with drugs and delinquency.

Still, Mr. Ostrowski keeps a full schedule, though he says it has been something of a task to fill up the vacant hours.

Thus, by mutual good offices, each seemed to console the vacant hours of the other: so that Milton, when he puts the following sentiment in the mouth of Adam, seems to be somewhat mistaken: Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl, So well converse, nor with the ox the ape.

Suggest them ways how to spend their vacant hours, better yet by encouraging them to spend it by reading a good science fiction book while munching on their food.

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He is apt to pronounce that there are "innocent delights enough to fill with joy every vacant hour" in order to persuade a friend to give up womanizing which the friend does.

The replacement - which even had a skeleton fish tail - was placed in the same position as the Little Mermaid and sat in her vacant spot for two hours, to the delight of tourists.

Three main costs are taken into account (see Table  1): (a) the cost per hour of OR idling time (vacant time cost); (b) the cost per hour of OR overtime (overtime cost); and (c) the cost per hour of surgeon waiting time (waiting time cost).> We assume that a set of ORs and surgeons are available each day.

It was never much of a surprise that Boris was linked with the vacant Top Gear job within hours of his Tory leadership bid crashing.

Jason Gillespie will hold talks with England director Andrew Strauss in the next 24 hours over the vacant head coach's position.

On the back couch in Harrison's Cafe, after hours in the vacant, locked-up shop.

A COMMON frustration with London's subsidised cycle-hire scheme is that it can be insanely hard to find a bike in rush hour, or a vacant docking slot at the end of a ride.

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