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How to use the word downtime in a Sentence?

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Having more downtime and less' Sunday scaries' over the weekend has helped improve my mental health and approach the week with a more positive attitude, rather than coming in stressed.

Emily Morrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Miranda Lambert's really about balance of life and work for me right now, i've been touring for 20 years, and I've been everywhere and seen nothing — just a lot of parking lots. I'm trying to use my downtime to really experience life. I always get the boring months off, and I'm like,' Can I just have a sunshiny month off ?' So the first of July, I'm out of here, and I ’m taking my Airstream.

Miranda Lambert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Obviously there’s a million different ways to do things, we feel great about where we are in regards to the [ Combine ]. Really felt for us it’s just a more efficient way to utilize our time. As you guys know, at the [ Combine ] there’s a lot of medical checks, there’s a lot of testing, there’s a lot of poking and prodding of the players, so there’s a ton of downtime.

Robert Saleh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are benefits to having downtime for more solitary activities to sort of disconnect from the world, we need both a time to reflect, to be by ourselves, to process the events of our lives and to think about where we want to move forward.

Vivian Zayas

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We know kids today are more anxious than ever, and we know at least some of the reason why is that they don't have enough downtime, i'm all for some structure during this period, for both kids' sanity and parents', but I think we should balance it out with some good old fashioned messing around the house.

Elissa Strauss

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You go to a concert or a sporting event and everyone has a screen, especially with baseball and the NFL... You've got all that downtime to engage with fans one on one. It keeps people in seats longer, give teams the ability to sell more product, makes fans follow stats more closely, and helps them connect with each other more within the stadium.

Joe Favorito

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Especially with baseball and the NFL... You've got all that downtime to engage with fans one on one. It keeps people in seats longer, give teams the ability to sell more product, makes fans follow stats more closely, and helps them connect with each other more within the stadium.

Joe Favorito

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Judge Burke did, during jury selection, Mr. Weinstein has much downtime outside the presence of the jury pool. He is not reading in the courtroom.

Donna Rotunno

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a dramatic change, and I think that we're going to see certainly more patients being offered a life-saving and life-improving therapy, with these catheter platforms, the morbidity and the downtime for the patient is dramatically less.

Ashish Shah

Found on CNN
5 years ago

With these catheter platforms, the morbidity and the downtime for the patient is dramatically less, what we don't know is about durability and long term -- how these valves... will perform over the course of 10 to 15 years.

Ashish Shah

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The holidays are such a busy time, but the week between Christmas and New Year’s is great because it really feels like a break, and it’s nice to use that downtime to create.

Darcy Miller

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We’re telling our people from the time you put that uniform on to the time you walk in your house your head needs to be on a swivel and there is no downtime anymore, no getting lunch and relaxing for a few minutes, what worries me as a law-enforcement executive is that extended period of hyper vigilance on our employees, that’s going to take a toll emotionally.

Richard Beary

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That is a myth that companies don't expect you to be online and do some personal social stuff, we just have to embrace that when (millennials) have downtime, that is what they do.

Bob Pearson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The biggest thing I'm looking forward to is putting my feet up, being home and enjoying some downtime.

Scott Jurek

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There's so much downtime at Walter Reed, and that's what we fill up with music, what we didn't expect is that they'd get really, really good. So we formed a band.

Arthur Bloom

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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