Sentences with phrase «instead of watching»

Instead of watching tv, we find ourselves watching birds take a dip and butterflies enjoying peacefully or gazing at the beautiful fall foliage.

My job is Hostess with the Mostess and one thing I'm thinking about doing is having extra games to play instead of watching the kiddo's play on their electronic devices all day.

Playing 30 minutes of board games with your child each night instead of watching television is an admirable concept, but gawd it's a struggle after working all day, then cooking dinner, then cleaning up, then making school lunches.

Instead of watching public open houses, viewers will get an inside look at the workings of agents» open houses and see how agents come up with strategies to price a home properly to get their clients the best price.

But with prices showing like they're going to continue to rise, it may be worth your time and finances to get in the game now during the hot summer months instead of watching from the sidelines.

I am the Media Liaison for the annual Rotary / Carl Oake Swimathon for Easter Seals and other Rotary Club initiatives, and I had to get out and do some face - to - face media work instead of watching Jerry.

If you watch the show with your teenager, instead of them watching alone, you can do a lot to counter these negative effects.

The distancer / pursuer cycle can also operate on an emotional level — where the pursuer always suggests the couple spend time together, go for a coffee, or talk instead of watching television; and feels as though the other person is not available or doesn't want to be with them.

Video resumes are kind of cool, but they're still up and coming, and most companies prefer the standard resume that they can scan really quick instead of watching a several minute multimedia presentation — they don't have time for that.

But instead of watching the festivities from home, you can be a star this season, too — at the annual Nestie Awards.

Instead of watching videos peppered with ads, YouTube Red users get ad - free videos, as well as other premium features, like the ability to save videos to watch offline and to play videos in the background.

We know that obtaining those cell phone and data records from the at fault driver will be very important to your case so that we can prove to the insurer, Judge and Jury that the at - fault driver was operating his smart phone instead of watching the road.

Instead of watching the road, drivers are making calls and sending text messages.

It's kind of liking going out to a baseball game instead of watching it on TV.

instead of watching Murray vs Federer, I am working my way through all your articles.

It was like watching a 4K movie instead of watching a game rendered in 1080p.

Instead of watching your characters play through a set, the game puts you on the stage, with you playing to a huge crowd.

Unlike most Americans, after Thanksgiving dinner, instead of watching football, some of my family and I play video games.

Well now instead of watching the trailer to get your fix, you can just go ahead and download the game now because it is on the Android Market.

Instead of watching buildings awkwardly catch fire and then flit through various stages of destruction, you can now watch coliseums collapse in on themselves as though they've just taken a healthy dose of C4.

She talks in cutscenes constantly, and apparently what she says is clichéd and obvious, as if she's describing the scene like you were reading a book instead of watching it happen.

It's an odd system, which forced me more often than not to be looking at the bottom right of my screen to make sure my attacks were in tune with the «red zone» — which signified a critical hit — instead of watching the battle itself.

If you haven't noticed or are like myself and have been playing videogames late at night instead of watching the various late night talk shows on TV, then you might not have noticed that all of NBC's late night shows are changing.

Maybe you could use this setback as an opportunity to spend more time this summer barbequing, going to the movies, taking road trips and dining out to take advantage of those 5 percent discounts, instead of watching TV.

Furthermore it has an outdoor patio for those who would like to sit outside instead of watching tv.

Instead of watching TV to relax, Jen processes her pictures, cause she finds it oddly calming!

Instead of watching patients dying weekly, and often times daily, from these devastating diseases, we now see fewer and fewer cases of them.

Instead of watching their partner's finger, people have clicked once they felt the touch on their arm.

Instead of watching the ripple effect, I have been focusing my efforts in Taiji, Japan.

If he's anything like mine, he'll strangle you for making this request, because now he'll be working overtime instead of watching the game.

It's usually just uncomfortable for someone to give up spending time with their friends or to write code instead of watching tv, or start the first chapter of their book on a saturday night.

Live life instead of watching it.

Take control of your money instead of watching your hard - earned cash disappear month after month.

Either way, you'd be building wealth instead of watching it methodically diminish.

Is it possible to include an mp3 in the podcast posts so people can just listen to the episodes instead of watching on youtube?

Owner Jon Page — who also happens to be the president of the Australian Booksellers Association — encourages bookshop owners to enter e-business instead of watching helplessly as Amazon becomes a monopoly.

But if that income was not taxable, that would allow me to devote an additional 30 to 40 percent to promotion efforts instead of watching that money swirl down the drain of taxes and fulfillment costs.

As much as the wife and I love NPR (seriously... we listen to NPR instead of watching TV, or we'll sit around and play video games while listening, and there have been countless times we've sat in the car in the garage or at the store for another ten minutes just to hear the end of whatever story was on at the time), our time as sustaining members is over.

It actually makes me want to sit down and read instead of watching tv.

When it comes to getting your daily news fix, most people are reading online instead of watching TV or picking up a newspaper.

Once I was old enough to read, it wasn't unusual at all to find the three of us sitting in the den at night reading instead of watching TV.

Just think of people reading scientific books instead of watching the next stupid daily soap.

It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and instead of watching TV or just hanging out, about two dozen students in a Central Falls, R.I., middle school were deep in thought at a long table in their school lunchroom, playing chess in pairs or against their teacher.

Ultimately, he wanted his students to spend more class time creating things out of wood instead of watching him teach them basic skills.

We'll unpack some of them here, so you can use them as opportunities instead of watching them hijack your next meeting or project.

Seeing the play in one go, instead of watching a play in fits and starts in English lessons, is also important.

Instead of watching this AV Club whack off, stay home, play TrackMania and drop some acid.

Slo - motions, close - ups, wide angles, and other creative uses of the camera made me feel as if I was flipping through a comic instead of watching a movie.

So instead of watching how newfound fame affects relationships, the crumbling of careers, or the behind the scenes workings of a team, the same old story rears its ugly head, this time wrapped in fancy camera shots that mask the shortcomings of the film.

Does Östlund think we would be better people if we spent 140 minutes talking to each other instead of watching The Square?