waking hours

American  

[way-king au-erz, way-king aurz] / ˈweɪ kɪŋ ˈaʊ ərz, ˈweɪ kɪŋ ˈaʊrz /

plural noun

singular

waking hour

1. the part of the day or night when a person is awake.

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Example Sentences

Delia and Moira are perpetually switched on throughout their waking hours, as if they’re aware of the public’s inability to imagine them wearing anything other than their most corseted get-ups and a blazing red lip.

From Salon

During sleep, CSF helps flush out waste that builds up during waking hours.

From Science Daily

It has managed to keep occupying the world’s waking hours with bingeworthy original shows.

From The Wall Street Journal

At least six days a week for the last decade, McCurdy said, she’s spent her waking hours scribbling on a laptop inside her Pasadena home, rotating from her desk to the kitchen counter to the couch to the dining table to the veranda and back again.

From Los Angeles Times

Boaz could feign interest during his waking hours, but at one in the morning he did not need to hear about the treachery of the Dutch West India Company or how Anthony would never have done something so dishonorable as pay his debts with a dead goat, that if a perfectly healthy goat simply expired on the spot after taking one whiff of the unwashed scoundrel, then that was hardly his fault.

From Literature