Sentence examples for idle around from inspiring English sources
"idle around" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is commonly used to describe the action of someone who is not being productive and is moving from place to place without any specific purpose. For example, "The children spent the afternoon idling around the playground."
And if we surrendered our attachments to peace, love and being chill, why would any rich, white tourist ever want to come and idle around on our beautiful, gated beach resorts?
Another nuisance has been the double-parked or illegally parked chauffeured town cars that idle around the neighborhood during high-end events like a Barbra Streisand concert.
And, really, not much seems like a big deal in this 70-minute movie that slides into idle around the 50-minute mark.
"I estimate that there are about 22 rigs sitting idle around the lake, but not all of them are operable, due to lack of maintenance, or because they require additional equipment," he told me.
They currently have a ONE Moms program, but I kept hearing about all the changes and education that needed to be done for the fathers in Ghana and throughout Africa and my mind never sits idle around a presented problem.
"They want to earn more instead of idling around," he said, adding that the workers, mostly from elsewhere in China, did not have their families with them -- a common practice in the country -- and had little else to do.
From what I "knew" about the playwright Terence Rattigan (ie that his characters idled around on chaises longues waving cigarette holders at each another), the last thing I expected from The Rattigan Enigma was to find him in a Lancaster bomber being gunned down by the Germans.
Bad feelings polluted my tired mind as I idled around doing nothing.
Here you see people cycling blithely along, or hurtling past in juggernauts, or idling around the J-streets in summer, the signs completely overlooked.
Even when they were at home, they would never have been idling around in their nightclothes at eleven in the morning; they would have been at work for hours already, in the kitchen or turning out the lodgers' rooms, with their sleeves rolled up and coarse aprons tied over their clothes.
"We can barely earn enough to feed ourselves, much less the horses and camels," said Mr. Abu Ghaneima, pointing out the articulated rib cages and jutting hip bones of animals idling around a pretty little green square in his village, a stone's throw from the Sphinx.
