Sentence examples for idles from inspiring English sources

Imported industrial equipment idles in port.

At this rate, we'll be bidding for vital organs next year, while a doner kebab van idles on the lawn.

In the small settlement of Armadillo all is calm, the people soundlessly going about their business while down the main stretch a tumbleweed lackadaisically idles by.

Like Fernando 7. Pass to Fernando 8. Stop hiding Fernando's shorts 9. Don't worships idles [sic] 10.

In "Nails," he wrote that his car "idles at twenty".

It stars Jack Black as Jerry, a shambling, logorrheic loser who lives in a trailer and idles his days away in a local video store owned by Mr. Fletcher Danny Gloverr) and staffed by the benevolent Mike (Mos Def).

Despite the president's deliberate attempt to talk down the markets and the media's dramatic warnings of economic Armageddon posed by a mere 17% of the government remaining temporarily idle, the S&P 500 closed at a record high the day after the shutdown ended.

On the busiest day of the show, fresh juice and pizza vans were standing idle.

We chewed over the usual unremarkable topics: The X Factor, future plans, idle gossip, the new Bond film.

But even before he could feel the tarmac beneath his feet and settle into the sleek grey Jaguar idling on the apron, the reality of his predicament became clear.

This used to be known as idling, but in a multi-tasking world, in which we seem to be living at a pace dictated by machines, going at human speed suddenly begins to look like sanity and freedom.