Synonyms for dead time


Grammar : Noun


Définition of dead time

  • noun unproductive time
Example sentences :
  • Never mind, let us look at that house in the dead time of year.
  • Extract from : « General Bounce » by G. J. Whyte-Melville
  • Save for these infrequent diversions, the winter was a dead time at Llanyglo.
  • Extract from : « Mushroom Town » by Oliver Onions
  • There could be no other explanation of their quitting their vessel at this dead time of night.
  • Extract from : « Humphrey Bold » by Herbert Strang
  • He had nowhere to go—four o'clock is a dead time to drop in on people!
  • Extract from : « The Vehement Flame » by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
  • Her eyes, wherein the dead time hung just above the underlids, lingered, as with the wish for him to name the name.
  • Extract from : « Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete » by George Meredith
  • It was done in the dim, dead time of faraway youth, but the Bishop had not forgotten.
  • Extract from : « The Shepherd of the North » by Richard Aumerle Maher
  • But then it was such a dead time of year, no wild-fowl, no game, and the Lady Frasers were not in the country.
  • Extract from : « Northanger Abbey » by Jane Austen
  • Yes; they educate the people to believe in these barbaric relics of a dead time,—for their own material interest.
  • Extract from : « Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre » by Voltairine de Cleyre
  • They tell us that winter is a dead time in America; but we have found it as well and better than we expected.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. » by Various
  • It was a dead time, and the whole station seemed nearly deserted.
  • Extract from : « That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3(of 3) » by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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