Sentence examples for idle play from inspiring English sources

"County Meath was mad rural, full of nature and idle play, playing with sticks and stuff," she says.

Then progressive educators drafted it into service as a new name for the nursery school, which brought to mind a place where toddlers frittered away their days in idle play.

I believe that a novelist should write for no more than four hours a day, after which returns truly diminish; this, of course, leaves many hours for idle play and contemplation.

The country of her youth was still part of the Soviet Union, but her memories of it are almost utopian — endless summers spent in idle play with friends on the banks of the Dnieper, which separates old Kiev with its wooded skyline of golden domed cathedrals and monasteries on the Right Bank from its Left Bank Soviet-era sibling.

Here's Chaucer, writing in the 14th-century, giving voice to a crowd: "We have done neither that nor this/but spend our lives in idle play./Nonetheless we come to pray/That we should have as good a fame,/and great renown, and well-known name/as those who have done noble deeds".

As a freshman at Cambridge, Idle played a weatherman in a skit called "BBC BC," written by the older Cleese: "Over the whole of Egypt, plague followed by floods, followed by frogs, and then death of all the firstborn -- sorry about that, Egypt".

The Yankees, idle yesterday, play Cleveland at Yankee Stadium today with Mondesi expected to be in uniform.

And she is already making a new sign to slip into the giant daily schedule in her classroom to substitute the idle "outside play" tag.

According to one interpretation, Aristotle does indeed include contradictions, but these are idle and play no real logical role in the argument he presents.

Then came the build-up in Vietnam, and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political play thing of a society gone mad on war...

Then came the build-up in Vietnam, and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political play thing of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic, destructive suction tube.