Sentence examples for idly that from inspiring English sources

Looking it over, I remarked, idly, that ten dollars per hour seemed like a lot of money for a babysitting gig in 1967.

The irked reader of Dirk Wittenborn's third novel, "Fierce People," begins to wish idly that something really, really bad would happen to these characters.

After boasting idly that he planned to sell them, he was court-martialed and served about a year and a half in Acre Central Prison, a 12th-century fortress built by Crusaders in western Galilee.

I say, rather idly, that I think Smash Hits' particular approach to the world in the Eighties - pop music and jokes - has taken over the whole of the British press.

So the next time you find yourself thinking idly that there oughta be a law – against not giving up your seat on a bus to someone who needs it more, or playing loud music in a public place, or panhandling – stop for a moment and think again.

So, step one: you say something, usually idly, that some kind of "ists" don't like, because it challenges their organizing beliefs.

He idly said: "That makes me feel like a man," but immediately began to worry that a sentence like that was sexist, as if by suggesting that a labour was specifically enhancing to male self-esteem implied it was something a woman couldn't do.

Buchanan was not sitting idly by that night, no sirree.

And it's got be soon because if we stand idly by that equitable outcome will disappear".

DURING the campaign, Barack Obama took a hawkish line on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan:[W]hen genocide is happening, when ethnic cleansing is happening somewhere around the world and we stand idly by, that diminishes us.

Probably we will idly wonder what that CNN panel is up to.