Sentence examples for Idle from inspiring English sources

Despite the president's deliberate attempt to talk down the markets and the media's dramatic warnings of economic Armageddon posed by a mere 17% of the government remaining temporarily idle, the S&P 500 closed at a record high the day after the shutdown ended.

On the busiest day of the show, fresh juice and pizza vans were standing idle.

We chewed over the usual unremarkable topics: The X Factor, future plans, idle gossip, the new Bond film.

So Osborne's cuts will boost the City, and transfer money away from productive investment and into idle corporate piggy banks, thus damaging the economy and leaving it even more City-dominated than before.

Young children formerly employed by dealers as look-outs are laid off, leaving them idle and in poverty.

In the dystopian society they envisage, machines have taken over most jobs and humans are left idle – except for those who know how to code.

Pyrolysis of forest residues from 200 hectares of timberland, pyrolysis of crop residues from 120 million hectares of farmland, and pyrolysis of fast-growing vegetation from another 30 million hectares of idle cropland could each sequester about ten percent of U.S. annual fossil-fuel emissions.

There's masses to do (should you feel the need) as well as space to idle the day away sipping on a fruit punch in the shade of a swaying palm.

As it propagates perverse caricatures of communities brimming with the feckless and the idle, the actual situation facing people around the UK is airbrushed out of the picture.

But Oliver Miles says "it would be idle to look for public agreement since the administration's hands are tied by Congress" (Comment, 27 September).

His cuts will take money away from a sector (government) that invests it directly in universities and roads, and give it to a sector (corporations) that will let it sit idle.