Sentence examples for lay idly from inspiring English sources
Everybody in his coach seemed listless; there was practically no conversation, & newspapers lay idly in laps.
Thousands of new satellite photographs of Afghanistan lay idly in storage at the height of the American military campaign last fall, as technological and then bureaucratic failings kept them out of the hands of Air Force pilots desperate for more accurate maps of the remote country, industry and military officials say.
A12 Errors Delayed Pilot Maps Thousands of new satellite photographs of Afghanistan lay idly in storage at the height of the American military campaign last fall, as technological and bureaucratic failings kept them out of the hands of Air Force pilots who needed them.
A remarkable sight in Singapore is possibly the largest fleet ever gathered: hundreds of supertankers and bulk carriers from around the world, lying idly at anchor.Despite the global slump, Asian growth continues.
And I would not be lying idly in my sickbed.
For many young girls in India, for example, the computer in the home and the mobile phone lying idly on the kitchen table aren't for her.
A linear relationship was observed between stocking density and the percentage of cows lying, standing, and idly standing in an alley.
A couple of weeks afterwards, I was idly checking the (usually pretty poor) sales ranking of some of my other books on Amazon.co.uk – I don't know any writer who doesn't do this regularly, and any who deny it are lying – when it dawned on me that there might also be such a thing as an amazon.co.jp.
It was hard to tell whether Angela was listening; she mostly lay back with her eyes closed, her fingers playing idly with the tubing of her machine.
"That's ill, yo!" A journal-keeping program called "Dear Me Diary" was illustrated by two appropriately bored-seeming girls who lay on a bed, pens in hand, with their feet kicking idly.
We found ourself idly tracing the slow course of planes across the sky at night as we lay in bed, despite out having been told that a V-bomb sounds more like an old motorcycle than a plane.
