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vb. (present participle of while away English)
Usage examples of "whiling away".
It was nearly deserted now, but for the chief surgeon and a couple of corpsmen whiling away their duty hours doing inventory, and a lone soldier with a broken arm kicking his heels and kibitzing.
There was a real gleam to the thing, as if the sergeant would enjoy whiling away a few hours watching the powers-that-were scrambling frantically out of the way of the powers-that-are.
Many hours I spent, waiting in the thickets for my prey, whiling away the time in a study of spiderwebs.
To all appearances, a man simply whiling away a long lunch break while he waited for his companion to arrive.
Montmorency had invited two other dogs to come and see him off, and they were whiling away the time by fighting on the doorstep.
We are having a mescal evening here, whiling away the hours of exile from our native Vespuccia.
Besides allowing him the means to entertain himself while whiling away the hours in foreign bistros, W.