Sentence examples for idling about from inspiring English sources

We were there very early and were idling about near the front.

Ford is idling about 5,000 of its hourly employees, in addition to the estimated 500 workers it has in the jobs bank.

Do you think it gave him a bad hangover once?" "They've figured more of us will be drinking cider on park benches soon so might as well tax us more while we're idling about," reasoned KenBarlow.

Rawlings cited Haiti's political instability for idling about 1,000 workers.

Either way, with all other activity on hold, idling about doing nothing is the day's main task.

However, we have been taking in a lot of great sights along the way, so it's not as if we've been idling about doing nothing.

That has idled about 2 billion gallons out of 12.5 billion gallons of annual production capacity.

The move will temporarily idle about 1,800 workers, the company said.

A legal standoff is threatening to idle about 240 workers and extend a cleanup that costs $1 million a day.

That, and the agency's plans to retire or idle about 2,700 megawatts of coal-fired power plants helped inform the decision.

The strike, which began June 1 amid a dispute over pensions and health care benefits, has idled about 9percentt of Western production capacity.