Sentence examples for idly in from inspiring English sources

Everybody in his coach seemed listless; there was practically no conversation, & newspapers lay idly in laps.

Few tourists were visible in Manger Square and guides stood idly in front of Nativity Church.

One auto-rickshaw driver who refused passengers, Dilip Gupta, sat idly in his vehicle.

A small group of tufted duck drift off idly in the same direction.

It's impossible to stand idly in one place for very long.

About fifty people and a few stray dogs were watching us idly in the parking lot.

From a distance, all we could see a few hundred people idly chatting in groups or lazily swaying side to side.

It's amazing to look up at the monitors and witness the illusion that the two women are idly chatting in a lovely home when in fact they are pitching to a robotic camera in a cold, cavernous studio.

Letter From Birmingham Jail 16 April 1963 My dear fellow clergymen: I am in Birmingham because injustice is here…  I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

After college, he bounced between Los Angeles and Austin, Tex., without much direction, but discovered a kind of religion and purpose after idly tuning in to talk radio and finding himself nodding in agreement to Rush Limbaugh and others.

A former journalist turned human rights activist, who was in Bosnia in 1995 at the time of the Srebrenica massacre before she went on to document the horrors of Darfur, she has done more than anyone in a position of influence in Washington to demand that America stop standing idly by in cases of genocide or large-scale atrocity.