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"Idly" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Don't look away idly; just pay attention to what you're doing.
I usually spend the whole day idly on Sunday.
He was idly turning over the pages of a magazine.
He lived idly and found himself already forty years old.
He often spends his time idly.
She was idly turning over the pages of a magazine.
She was idly looking out of the window.
It is dull for me, grandmother, to sit idly hour by hour. My hands want work to do. Go, therefore, and buy me some flax, the best and finest to be found anywhere, and at least I can spin.
We can't sit idly by.
We can't just stand idly by.
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I idly played with the paper, not even realizing I was folding it into a paper airplane.
A Tamil breakfast starts with idly (steamed rice cakes) with sambhar (hot, spicy and sour lentils with vegetables) and rasams (broth of lentil, spiced) and upma (cooked course wheat), lunch is generally dosai (thin crepes), vadas (deep fried nuggets of lentils) with sambhar.
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