Sentence examples for had idle from inspiring English sources

Many had idle land, or had opted out of the local food market altogether.

He can even plan: "He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery".

It helps that winter is a slow travel season in Europe, meaning that some commercial carriers and others had idle planes available for quick lease to charter operators.

But, producing in four EU countries, MF still had idle capacity, especially at its Beauvais plant in France, making heavy tractors.

And we've had idle legal threats from much scarier companies than MediaScrape before (a complete list: YouTube, Marvel, Rivals and my personal favorite, Richard Figueroa) and this is no way to build credibility.

Before they were clean and dry and double-bagged, they had idled in a distant cow town.

Chinalco, China's biggest aluminium-maker, which had idled 10% of its capacity, said in December that it would restart it all.

sat the sand lands that the federal government had idled in the 1950s.

The relievers had idled all evening, not one member of the group rising to loosen up, as Clayton Kershaw completed his latest masterwork.

"Believe it," Ms. Sanders told her. "You'll be begging to have idle time".

The rest of us have idle time in which to think up all of these possible milestones and achievements.