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Idle
"Idle" in a Sentence (24 examples)
You are idle to the bone.
Some boys are diligent, others are idle.
I spent idle days during the vacation.
The machines are idle now.
It is absurd to idle away the student life.
I regret having been idle in my school days.
The rain kept the baseball team idle yesterday.
But that he was idle, he would have succeeded.
It is about time you stopped being so idle and did some work.
It's time that you stopped wasting your youth on idle pastimes.
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My computer hibernates after it has been idle for 30 minutes.
The majority of accounts require no minimum balance and charge no monthly service fee. Where monthly fees and balance requirements exist, they're low. You earn no interest on the idle money in the account.
idle workmen
Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.
an idle fellow
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!”
an idle story; idle talk; idle rumor
The youth is idle
to idle in an IRC channel
He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo […]
High levels of all pollutants were found during time idling in stations.
The driver idled his engine until the car finally stalled.
a lumpy idle
A slight valve tap was audible at idle but was not noticeable otherwise.
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