Sentence examples for rest idle from inspiring English sources

"That facility will rest idle," Mr. Ryan said.

In the late 1940s they were already thinking about the essential rigidity and (from one point of view) logical inefficiency of machines which, unlike living information processors, can only do one thing at a time, leaving the whole elaborate structure of the rest idle.

This is possible, and widespread outages can be avoided, but governments cannot rest idle.

However, very little is known about graphene's self-discharge (SD) – the spontaneous potential loss that occurs when a device rests idle.

Web video could revive key regions of techdom, sparking the purchase of waves of new gear and software and soaking up the oversupply of dark fiber that rests idle in the ground after the madly optimistic building binge of the late 1990s.

Otherwise surely, "the rest is idle dreaming".

"Without a stable economy, the rest is idle dreaming".

And only an eighth of potential global capacity is actually in use; the rest is idle but ready to be "lit".

Although alpha activity (10 Hz) is by far the strongest signal produced by the human brain, it has for decades been considered to reflect rest or idling.

Unlike the rest of us idle dreamers, however, Barât is a famous rock star, which means he has the misfortune of being able to find out.

I have used "There is no rest for the idle" and "green behind the ears" in poems, but I still have in reserve "I'm at the end of my straw!" Further reading: a splendid essay by Ryan, on humor in poetry; and an excellent profile of the poet.