Sentence examples for virtually idle from inspiring English sources
"Standing virtually idle for more than a decade couldn't help but affect the expertise and skills of the shipbuilders, which must have caused this technical fault.
Now, most of the important oil ports and refineries, virtually idled by international sanctions and months of fighting, are ramping back up.
The strikes have already idled virtually all of G.M.'s hourly employees -- 162,700 as of today.
But many Democrats dread the prospect of Gore II and have encouraged the candidacy of virtually any Democratic senator with an idle presidential fantasy -- none of whom share Lieberman's sense of constraint.
After 19 model years, Dodge built its final Viper in July — a 2010 model, virtually indistinguishable from the '09 — then idled the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit.
With new seal technology, materials and designs, however, these demands can be incorporated to create systems virtually free from leakage during operation and idle periods, even when handling explosive liquids at their boiling point.
Virtually all of the car company's plants and many of its supplier factories stand idle.
He said the same about virtually every YOI he inspected, citing rising levels of violence and self-harm; young men locked idle in their cells 23 hours a day; 30 minutes outdoor exercise the norm.
