Sentence examples for gaze idly from inspiring English sources

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Silver-clad galaxy hoppers gaze idly through telescopes or space visors amid a Jules Verne fantasy world in which nothing is as it seems: The gears on a wheel are the teeth of a sawfish, hanging crystals of ice are glittering jewels and the spines of an alligator are polished white shells, which in turn resemble the skyline of a futuristic city.

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The few fans who hadn't gone in search of beer or shade gazed idly at their cellphone screens.

All I know is that instead of pounding posts for a new fence or cleaning up the garden, I've been gazing idly at small sailboats for sale on the Web.

On this night, Ms. Talbot gazed idly at the Italian fresco on the ceiling as conversation around her bounced from fermentation periods to residual sugar scales and other fine points of sake production.

Women spill over laps and crawl atop tables, fannies aloft; men are shirtless and dazed, seated and gazing idly over their female counterparts.

After three-course lunches and a Hanoi beer, afternoons were spent idly gazing at the scenery drifting by, from the loungers and sofas on deck.

They're a companionable, unabrasive bunch, bending their heads down to their picks, mallets and crosscut saws or idly raising them to gaze at passing clouds which are alike in grain with the clods at their feet.

The world will not sit idly by as Europeans navel-gaze.

If you've ever been gazing out of your office window and idly imagining a monster on the horizon... well, now you can sketch it!

While most of the other motorists look idly around, one man has his hands raised and his eyes with a meditative gaze.

I paid the waitress and moved up to the bar, idly watching the Lakers go through their paces with the sound muted and gazing out the window at the pale bleached forest of the ships' masts gathered there against the night.

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