Sentence examples for somewhat idle from inspiring English sources

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He is low in stature — long visage — light hair — coarse features — ungaitly — awkward — is a fiddler — loves ale — likes the girls — somewhat idle, — hates work.

He is low in stature — long visage — light hair — coarse features — ungaitly — awkward — is a fiddler — loves ale — likes the _girls — somewhat idle, — hates work.

Yet despite the recent momentum brought about by the high-tech sector, we cannot make this transition without taking a few essential near-term steps: Nowhere is there a better idea on the table than the R&D tax credit, which expired last December and has been sitting somewhat idle in Congress ever since.

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That hardly seems an ideal outcome for society, however — somewhat like letting sophisticated machinery lie idle and depreciate in plain sight.

Perhaps because it was more attuned to California, the Singer Porsche started somewhat reluctantly and settled into a lumpy, rumbling idle.

Fewer trains have been idling recently and the situation has improved somewhat in recent weeks, Mr. Schaumburg said.

For example, when the engine is cold, it idles at around 800 r.p.m. — and throbs somewhat like a diesel.

The problem of happiness is not an idle one: Romney himself posed it during the debate, in striking, and somewhat odd, terms, in his closing statement.

As an idle pastime, he gets to know the leading lights of the Austro-Hungarian empire, who, somewhat like their counterparts in the American south of the 1850s, have no idea they are passing into history.

Idle hands".

Idle chatter?

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