Sentence examples for idle off from inspiring English sources

About two dozen American military vessels continued to idle off the Turkish port of Iskenderen today, and American diplomats continued talking with Turkish officials.

In 2005, the average day rate for the biggest container ships was $38,500; on Wednesday, that rate was about $5,750, with hundreds of ships bobbing idle off the coast of Singapore like giant duck decoys.

An "idle off" feature shuts down the gas engine when the car stops (at a red light, for instance) and restarts it automatically when the driver presses the gas pedal.

And the Ferrari idled off the stage.

The United Kalavrvta idling off Texas was supposed to deliver the oil to an American chemical giant called LyondellBasell, which now says it does not want to get involved in a legal dispute between Baghdad and the Kurds.

With 200 ships idling off the west coast, and scores more heading across the Pacific, manufacturers were missing parts, retailers could not plan their Christmas shelves and farmers could not sell food to Asia.

Not Copacabana bikini skimpy, but far too slight for such a big place: hence the queue of ships idling off Rio's beaches, waiting for a slot at its overburdened port.

At least 90 large freighters full of iron ore are idling off Chinese ports, where they face waits of up to two weeks to unload because port storage operations are overflowing, chief executives of shipping companies said in interviews this week.

It pursued stories for an episode before abandoning them, teased at intrigue before ignoring it, introduced delightfully crackers characters such as Simon Russell Beale's fruity Egyptologist, Ferdinand Lyle, before jettisoning them, and, most meandering of all, idled off into a subplot about the unjust employment practices of Victorian theatres.

Salomon figures that MCI WorldCom's new five-cent plan is actually good for the carrier, since it puts traffic on idle off-peak network capacity.

Not only can those businesses focus on their core competency — preparing food — but it also makes them far less exposed to drivers sitting idle off-peak or not being able to keep up with demand during peak times, not least if a directly employed driver goes sick or simply doesn't turn up.