Sentence examples for idle exercise from inspiring English sources
This was no idle exercise.
It is not an idle exercise.
"Talking to me about it is an idle exercise.
There was almost no small talk, for this was no idle exercise.
As he will have known, the investigation by the Business, Innovation and Skills committee was not an idle exercise in entertainment.
Fox's book is not an idle exercise in intellectual history, which makes it a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we're in.
But he was not interested in skeptical critique as an idle philosophical exercise.
Free men (actually gentlemen farmers) who are not idle but exercise diligence in those useful things they understand are happiest; work and application help men to learn what they need to know and to remember what they learn (II.vii.7-8).
This is not merely an idle academic exercise.
Back in June, I took what was going to be an idle lunchtime data exercise for myself and opened it up to Datablog readers to rate the deliciousness, structural integrity, and number of ingredients of their sandwiches.
Today's hearing, which California Rep. Ted Lieu dismissed as "stupid and ridiculous," was little more than an exercise in idle hyper-partisanship, but it's notable for a few reasons.
