Sentence examples for are idly from inspiring English sources

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We are idly coasting through a run of celebrity cameos, including Rihanna's, when the apocalypse arrives.

We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life".

But let's not pretend that no one is taking action, or that those communities are idly waiting to be saved from themselves.

All around them, chorus members are idly beating each other up, or anally raping passers-by, if not merely masturbating or taking a dump, so that a gang-banged old gipsy can wind up smeared in shit.

The reality into which Darwin plunges us is bracing – "the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life" – but refreshing too.

It's amazing to look up at the monitors and witness the illusion that the two women are idly chatting in a lovely home when in fact they are pitching to a robotic camera in a cold, cavernous studio.

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That exclamation mark can't have been idly inserted.

Wolfowitz said that it was as if America were "idly watching a mugging".

A young woman who had been idly reading a golf magazine turns into Jordan Baker.

While I was idly browsing "flats in Leeds" online, my phone starting ringing.

The eureka moment came when he was idly contemplating a different security threat.

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