Sentence examples for go idle from inspiring English sources

Japan let all of its reactors go idle, and then slowly restarted a few.

He'd discover a workout program, do it for three months, go idle for about six, find something new.

Farmers will have to let even more land go idle this year, says Richard Howitt, a professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis.

The site, which is not affiliated with AOL, collects what it calls "presence data," or information on when those users sign on, sign off, go idle or flag themselves as being away.

The hardest work is to go idle.

800 workers lose jobs as two factories go idle.

One by one, across 40 blocks, the rest of the 428 courts went idle, waiting to be dismantled in time for Monday's rush hour.

Most of those plants — with more than enough capacity to replace the nation's entire nuclear power fleet — went idle as gas prices soared, hitting $15 per thousand cubic feet after Hurricane Katrina.

There's a lot of money going idle if this situation cannot be resolved.

The study accounted for the "always-on" broadband connections by monitoring only active usage: If a PC went idle for 30 minutes, it was considered offline and those last 30 minutes were counted as just one minute.

However, flooding and fires caused both mines to close by 1896; the Glass brothers lost control of the property, and the mines went idle.