Sentence examples for has been idling from inspiring English sources

ZZ TOP has been idling for a while.

Texas's unemployment rate is 8.2%, according to the Texas Workforce Commission, and has been idling there for some months.

The plane goes to full power — only now does one appreciate that the aircraft has been idling, dawdling.

The plane goes to full power only now does one appreciate that the aircraft has been idling, dawdling.

Meanwhile, the United Leadership, a tanker that took on a cargo of Kurdish oil at Ceyhan in May, has been idling off the coast of Morocco.

The "motor of Europe" is indeed sputtering now, but it has been idling for years: not since 1992 has Germany grown faster than the rest of the European Union.Oddly, the present slowdown may mark a change for the better.

Officials from the Port of Long Beach estimated that $650 million in trade has been idled each day of the strike.

Officials from the port of Long Beach estimated that for each day of the strike, $650 million in trade has been idled and 50 trains delayed.

Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say the government shutdown did not affect the salmonella investigation, but 60percentt of the agency's workforce has been idled.

As a result, drivers have been idling in standstill traffic and enduring horrendous commutes over alternate routes.

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