Sentence examples for idle for hours from inspiring English sources

As a result, commerce waits as trucks idle for hours in long lines.

Truck drivers idle for hours only to be allowed to buy as little as five gallons of fuel.

Vendors who line the street where cars sometimes idle for hours waiting to enter the United States perked up when they heard about the cuts.

But in the last six months, residents of the Bronx River section of the Bronx, which is ringed by these two big highways, have realized just how unpleasant life can be when trucks idle for hours along residential streets.

Plenty of folks in the fashion flock griped bitterly about being dragged to a McQueen show in some Paris dungeon or a sports arena on the outskirts of that city, made to idle for hours in the heat or cold, as they awaited the start of the show.

Cars idle for hours in 110-degree heat.

When it was time to rest, hammocks were set up on the  deck, but the engine noise forced the participants into idle chitchat, idle chitchat for hours, with hopes of shortening the night.

Paul's plane idles for hours on the runway.

Cars with New Jersey license plates idled for hours along East First Street, after their drivers shot up and nodded off.

The shortages also contribute to air pollution, with trucks idling for hours as they wait in line.

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