Sentence examples for going idle from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

But it's not only when power plants go idle that waste management companies make money.

When their machines go idle, you can pause terminals and not be charged.