Sentence examples for had been idle from inspiring English sources

The plant had been idle for the year-end holidays.

The plant had been idle since last Thursday.

For almost all of 2011, as tourists abandoned Tunisia, the Lezard Rouge had been idle.

The pumps, mixers and other heavy vehicles had been idle for days.

Like some 50 other mills across the country, the one in Aguacate had been idle for several years.

Chateaugay who had been idle since August won, passing the post a neck ahead of Knightly Manner.

Wormuth, an emergency-room physician, had been idled by a lack of serviceable generators at Oschner Clinic.

A government-sponsored bus that had been idling nearby opened its door, and one by one, they filed on.

Earlier this week, the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group reported that 100,000 workers at its member companies had been idled by the blackouts.

Last month, North and South Korea agreed to reopen the jointly operated Kaesong industrial park, which had been idled since the North pulled its workers out in April.

On the evening of the murder, Washington and Rogers said, they had been idling with Hood on a front porch in the neighborhood.