waking hours

plural noun

: the hours in the day that a person is awake

He spent all his waking hours working on the project.

Examples of waking hours in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial. — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026

But unfortunately, most of us don't have enough real-life waking hours (or bank accounts) to make these dreams come true. — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 17 Sep. 2026

She becomes entranced by a mural painted on the walls of the bedroom and is tormented in her dreams and eventually in her waking hours by a powerful force. — Ashley Woo, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2026

For decades, Jafari has spent most of his waking hours thinking about the minutiae of wiping the virus from the face of the Earth. — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for waking hours

• devours
• empowers
• sunflowers
• bowers
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• flowers
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• ours
• scours
• showers
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• towers