Sentence examples for idly to from inspiring English sources

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New cars waited idly to be transported to buyers.

The Border Patrol agents sitting at them chat idly to themselves.

"We cannot sit idly to wait for Khartoum to kill us," Arman observed.

He has also threatened – one hopes idly to pack in snooker altogether for a more idyllic life on a barge.

Together with David Donald and a group of other engineers, Mr Vaught began idly to discuss concepts for an ideal printer.

When I mentioned idly to my publicist recently that I'd kept a journal from age 12, she asked if I'd like that archive accessed posthumously, and I blenched.

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They said that Rabin's piece was "likely to foster unnecessary fear," and that "the implication that women idly choose to start or to remain on antidepressants … or any other medication during pregnancy is insulting and demeaning".

The temptation for leaders is always to avoid being accused of "standing idly by"; to suggest that there are lines that should not be crossed or actions that would be in some way "unacceptable".

Jesse, played by Jodie Whittaker, has come to London to care for her great-uncle Ian Leslie Phillipss) and also, she rather idly hopes, to break into modeling.

James idly began to sing a Beatles' song, "All I've Got to Do".

Locke idly starts to go through Robertson's belongings.

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