Sentence examples for idly musing from inspiring English sources

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After turning out the lights, we regressed into modern versions of 50's schoolgirls, idly musing about the men we might someday hook up with as life partners.

So, for example, if the driver is idly musing that he needs more downforce to get past the pesky back marker in his way, the car will change shape to provide exactly that.

Had Watson bothered to take notes during her talk, instead of idly musing about her dress sense and her looks, he would have provided Crick with the vital numerical evidence 15 months before the breakthrough finally came.

But the fact that, when idly musing about things which might be holding back the economy, he doesn't even think at all about, say, how some regulations might be hamstringing some sectors of the economy, to my mind, shows that he is at the deep level, a productivist.

When not at work or in class, I would lie in bed for hours, reading, thinking, doing nothing, enjoying the solitude, staring at the ceiling, idly musing, unworried about feeling industrious or useful.

Yet I found myself idly musing, "Well, I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating biscuits... .. Thus does Harris entice us to confirm the central creed of her latest novel - that evil can entrance the human soul.

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True, it is the month of her 77th birthday, but the careful reader will spot another milestone coming up as James idly muses, on Aug. 17, reading the London Sunday papers on her way to church at All Saints, Margaret Street, "Do the public really care about the antics of the Princess of Wales and her lover?" Aha!

According to the Maddow Blog's recent tally, other lawmakers who've mused idly about impeachment in public include Senators Ted Cruz and James Inhofe, as well as Reps.

He is constantly dreaming up new schemes -- he recently had brief discussions with USA Network about starring and producing a series spoofing the art world -- and he even muses idly about a career in politics: "I don't necessarily believe that's where I'm headed, but I certainly get interested when I see what someone like Jesse Ventura is doing".

He paused, musing.

"It does sound rather a lot," she muses idly.

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