Sentence examples for lays idle from inspiring English sources
Today, that torrent is just a trickle while the coffee infrastructure lays idle.
Some was given to rich people, and some of it lays idle.
Sometimes it lays idle, glowing faintly in my gut.
"Concord growers have found themselves without a processor to deliver their grapes to, leading to productive agricultural acreage laying idle," Weigle said.
LONDON — When a man has been the best of his kind, and then is laid idle by injury for eight months, the pain of withdrawal becomes cerebral rather than physical.
Resources never lay idle.
(lay, laid, laid, laying).
Young children formerly employed by dealers as look-outs are laid off, leaving them idle and in poverty.
But the timing of that submarine build was also crucial for the "500 jobs come what may" promise to be believable, because a later construction would leave the shipyards idle and workers laid off before the new jobs came into play.
While some UC Berkeley scientists were laid off, others "were not idle," SETI spokesperson Karen Randall told ScienceInsider.
If, as Steve Jobs said, creativity is about connecting disparate dots, that process requires there to be idle dots just laying around not being used in the first place.
