Sentence examples for quite idly from inspiring English sources
Gayle can't be fussed to field the ball, but sticks out an arm quite idly and allows it to bounce past away towards square leg.
"It does sound rather a lot," she muses idly.
The government is quite right to intervene into the financial situation rather than stand idly by.
But to idly wander the byways of some nondescript coastal eternity for ever doesn't quite do it for me.
Therefore, now that the returns are coming in, we find that quite a few trust stocks were selling at bargain-counter prices with the management standing idly by, realizing that the backlog of securities and other assets were actually in excess of what the public was selling them for.
Pinched and idly gestured toward a plinthTwo centuries of customers have careworn To a shallow trough not quite my length, I'm forced to burrowInto a pose much more flagellant than faun.
Here is a populace that can't quite believe that, in the era of satellite transmission and the 24-hour-cable-news culture, the world will sit idly by and let this kind of slaughter go on unchallenged (which it mostly did).
He began to think idly about suicide.
Older couples idly stir tea.
Brussels cannot stand idly by.
