How to Use waking hours in a Sentence

waking hours

plural noun
  • Many of us spend many of our waking hours at work.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The city that never sleeps spends a lot of its waking hours eating.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Even before daylight saving​ time ends, Kansas City area residents will spend more of their waking hours in the dark this fall.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The mother spends her waking hours working on other people’s farms and performing tasks the neighbors prefer not to do themselves.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • The archetypal climbers were young men without families to feed or full-time jobs to hold down, free to devote their waking hours to becoming one with the rock.
    — Kelli María Korducki, HubSpot, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The average American now spends 5 hours and 30 minutes per day on their phone, nearly a third of waking hours.
    — Kenneth Schlenker, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Thor is the God of Thunder, a mountain of a man who has weathered many a battle in his time, but whose actions in a war fought long ago now haunt his waking hours.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But in winter, sunrise and sunset tend to fall squarely within typical waking hours, particularly around commutes to and from work or school.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The group recommends at least 250 lux of circadian-effective light during waking hours, a sharp drop in the evening and near-darkness overnight.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2026
  • The group recommends at least 250 lux of circadian-effective light during waking hours, a sharp drop in the evening and near-darkness overnight.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 9 May 2026
  • In the cafe's early days, Yeung spent most of her waking hours at the shop, often working 12-hour days and personally whisking every drink.
    — Mike Winters mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • Modern fiction can’t make any valid claim to realism without acknowledging that its characters spend perhaps a quarter of their waking hours online.
    — Gideon Leek, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • On day two, the icing schedule is 20 minutes on, 40 minutes off during waking hours and by day three, icing can typically be stopped.
    — Michele Promaulayko, Allure, 17 June 2026
  • The food environment, for horses and humans alike, delivers a continuous supply of insulinogenic food across the waking hours.
    — Joshua Moen, STAT, 8 June 2026
  • The man who minted the initials that fill every one of the world's waking hours—CNN —has made a place for himself in contemporary mythology.
    — Steven M. L. Aronson, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026
  • School nurses are the largest and most widely distributed trusted public health workforce serving American children who spend 1,000 waking hours a year in school.
    — Jordan Schriver, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2026
  • Around-the-clock monitoring Cats are often most active outside of typical waking hours, meaning important behavioral signals can occur overnight.
    — New Atlas, 1 Apr. 2026
  • First, sleep allows the brain’s glymphatic system to clean out waste, such as beta-amyloid, that accumulates during waking hours, similar to how the lymphatic system clears waste from the rest of the body, Hwang said.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Participants were assigned to take a five-minute walk at a comfortable pace every 30 minutes, every 60 minutes or every 120 minutes during their waking hours.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The feature works in the background during waking hours, analyzing photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, changes in blood volume under the skin, to detect patterns that suggest chronic high blood pressure.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to the usual door-to-door canvassing and traditional media advertisements, Move Forward successfully used social media platforms to appeal to Thais, who spend on average nearly half their waking hours in front of a screen.
    — Tamara Loos, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2023
  • Even Rue’s childhood friend Lexi (Maude Apatow), who appears to be the only main character to emerge from the time jump with a college degree, has no one’s idea of a good life, spending nearly all her waking hours fetching lunches and coffees as a showrunner’s apprentice.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
  • Maharajas’ Express, India The 23 carriages of these luxury trains travel mostly by night, allowing passengers plenty of time during waking hours to disembark for visits to UNESCO World Heritage landmarks, take game drives, and dine in fine hotels and palaces.
    — Ann Shields, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025

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