Sentence examples for idle on from inspiring English sources

For now, the Airstreams are sitting idle on the estate, one near the visitor's gate and the other near a garage.

Young men stood idle on street corners.

Nebraska, idle on Saturday, led last week.

Recently imported cars idle on congested, often flooded, streets.

But buses sent to take residents from the buildings sat idle on Saturday afternoon.

Villas-Boas had, again, chosen to leave Fernando Torres sitting idle on the bench.

The Senate cannot continue to sit idle on jobs and the budget.

"The only nine I've ever given was the idle on a Lincoln Marquis".

Planes sometimes land on time only to sit idle on runways waiting for empty gates.

He comments on the fact that people, even those idle on weekdays, rise early on Saturday.

In the US cars are idle, on average, 95% of the time.