How to Use spare time in a Sentence

spare time

noun
  • Chua built these chatbots in her spare time with easy-to-use tools.
    — Jackie Snow, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Rodriguez, who crochets in her spare time, looked through the yarn.
    — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • White, who lives in Cedar Park, likes to learn Photoshop in his spare time.
    — Asher Price, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • But Beatriz is a lady of leisure, with plenty of spare time.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In their spare time, the duo created a series of award-winning short movies.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Both painted in their spare time, which inspired Ms. Hogrogian at a young age.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • In their spare time, the couple played tennis and went swimming at the local country club.
    — Christine Pelisek, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Vladimir managed to do all of this in his spare time while maintaining his career.
    — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • Jorge could only work on the machine in his spare time and his promise to deliver stretched on for years.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 26 July 2024
  • In his spare time, Bulusu likes playing outdoors with his friends.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
  • Why not knock out an impossible surgery in her spare time?
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • It’s often seen as optional and reserved for when there’s spare time, but that time rarely comes.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • After all, many do puzzles, play chess or challenge their brains in all sorts of ways during their spare time.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Working in her spare time over a period of years, Shaw went to work on Hylton’s nightgown.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • In his spare time, Michael Shaver raced airplanes with a local flight team called Precious Metal across the country.
    — Paige Harriss, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But definitely just doing work in my spare time, still leaning on the older guys to kind of help with that.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
  • For Spain’s 16-year-old winger Lamine Yamal, his spare time can be taken up with catching up with homework on his pad.
    — James Robson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2024
  • In her spare time, Starks, who is single and does not have children, enjoys painting and relaxing at the beach.
    — Chianti C. Cleggett | For The Birmingham Times, al, 8 Mar. 2023
  • All of the dossier authors worked as volunteers, poring over papers and images in their spare time.
    — science.org, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Bailey Zimmerman was busy with a union job and tricking out pickup trucks in his spare time just three years ago.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe one of your senior leaders is a game developer in her spare time.
    — Bynatasha Piñon, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • Abigail is also an expert in Gilmore Girls lore and yaps about romance novels on a podcast in her spare time.
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In her limited spare time, the doctor visits schools to encourage girls to take jobs in medicine themselves.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Much of his spare time is spent running, constructing crosswords and solving word puzzles of all kinds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • In his spare time, Eric writes television pilots from his place in Glendale, CA.
    — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
  • In their spare time, Henry and Godwin enjoy hiking and surfing.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • James Wimshurst developed his eponymous machines in his spare time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
  • In her spare time, Whitford competes on a synchronized ice skating team and gives ice skating lessons.
    — Matt Leavitt, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • In her spare time, Sharon had several interests and pastimes.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Unsurprisingly then, McKennie has not spent his spare time studying videos of other left-backs.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025

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