while away the hours
while away the evening

We while away the hours staring at each other and ourselves.

We'll find some way to while away the hours.

She burned to know how he whiled away the hours.

The old lady's stories whiled away the hours of the long drive.

With all the classics, one gets to the heart of problems and does not while away the hours gaping at the next shooting star.

He needed something to while away the hours.

Then they all sat down in the lounge to while away the hours in conversation.

Remember I'm no trollop to while away the hours for you.'

No chairs or couches for loafers to while away the hours.

He spent much of his time in the family's apartment or visiting friends, whiling away the hours playing video games.

This may explain in part why he is later so willing to while away the hours in Nelly's company.

Forget that latest beach-read page-turner to while away the hours.

The people around me were mostly Shashters eager for company to while away the hours.

Not a bad place to while away the hours locked inside your own reality, Kovac thought.

They while away the hours basking under their heat lamps, and at night they close both eyes - or sometimes just one.

So much for being a star, whiling away the hours in this rickety caravan, waiting to be called.

If you think it involves whiling away the hours playing the latest games, think again.

Around the pond, there are several large and small traditional Korean pavilions nearby, where visitors can while away the hours.

He drank, and whiled away the hours dozing on and off.

In most cases, the prisoners are simply looking for people to write to them, a way of whiling away the hours in their cells.

Even more seem to want their pets to be on parade: you can while away the hours watching someone's iguana or ant farm.

He was now a bored driver, whiling away the hours of a tedious vigil.

The galleys follow soon afterward, just in time to while away the hours stuck in summer traffic.

"One must havesome amusement to while away the hours."

The old city's residents persevere, whiling away the hours of bombardments in shelters.

As the work took longer than planned he had his wife send him literature to while away the evenings.

During the long, warm summer nights you will find some convivial place to while away the evening.

I was whiling away the evening without you at the piano, I remember.

Nyhavn is a jolly place to while away the evening.

A block off the malecón, its breezy arcade is a pleasant place to while away the evening.

In this story, the title hero plays the game with friends Laura and Fred Vivian to while away the evening hours.

"In my family ... we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously."

In Chiang Mai, head out for some hill-tribe trekking, and while away the evenings in the sprawling night markets.

The boxy antiseptic Federal Express office along a forlorn strip at 537 West 33d Street does not seem like a stirring place to while away the evening.

We whiled away the evening at L'Orangerie, the sister restaurant of Gérard Ferry's Los Angeles establishment of the same name.

And though some of the parties have ended with a late-night dip in the pool or ocean, on this night they whiled away the evening with glasses of chilly white wine and soft chatter.

WHAT TO DO AT NIGHT - Most of Oaxaca whiles away the evenings at home or cafes rather than at nightclubs.

Sitting in the tub, naked except for a top hat, BONO whiles away the evening playing Monopoly with the ancient Chinese philosopher LEI PING)

There are no airs allowed among fisherfolk, however, and after a few days of whiling away the evenings over a glass of the local malt even Lord So-and-So is quickly reduced to the more familiar Binky.

At the Liwan tea and water pipe parlor on a rooftop near the airport here, young Saudi men, many of them unemployed, while away the evenings puffing fruit-laced tobacco, drinking sugary tea and wondering about their uncertain future.

McPherson had envisioned a grand old time in New Orleans before the Sugar Bowl game Friday against Auburn (3:30 P.M., Channel 7), whiling away the evenings listening to all that jazz in smoke-filled nightclubs on Bourbon Street.