Sentence examples for idle seats from inspiring English sources
Much as the Internet enables airlines and hotel chains to find buyers for idle seats and idle beds, so it will enable auto suppliers to keep their lines busy in what otherwise would be dead time.
2. Scholars to enter School [a] few minutes before 10 o'clock, and to quietly take their seats, idling in or around the school being strictly forbidden 6.
The 98-seat jets usually sit idle at weekends, but the unprecedented move also comes a week after BA warned it could pull its fleet out of London City [paywall] if landing charges were raised.
By Laura Hillenbrand We were in Linc's car, an aging yellow Mercedes sedan, big and steady, with slippery blond seats and a deep, strumming idle.
We were in Linc's car, an aging yellow Mercedes sedan, big and steady, with slippery blond seats and a deep, strumming idle.
It is probably too much of a fuss to leave the auditorium each time, which means using at least one of the slots for reading programmes, eating ice-cream or idling uncomfortably in the seat.
That is not an idle threat from some quixotic candidate for the seat being vacated by Maine's famously moderate Republican, Olympia J. Snowe.
Nearly every seat was occupied, and a murmur of idle chatter filled the auditorium as I stood off to the side.
Now and again I climbed up into the front seat of the rig when it sat idle, barely able to see over the dashboard.
Outside, taxis sat idle in long queues, with many drivers reclining in their front seats, snoozing.
