Sentence examples for was idly from inspiring English sources

While I was idly browsing "flats in Leeds" online, my phone starting ringing.

The eureka moment came when he was idly contemplating a different security threat.

Last year, he was idly watching Gregg Wallace judging a plate of food.

As they talked, Thera was idly going through Katie's walk-in closet to see what was new.

Leah Hostalet, a former student, was idly scrolling through her Facebook newsfeed when she came across one of his updates.

"Do you know what I've always wanted to do in the Park?" He was idly picking at the label on his bottle of beer.

That exclamation mark can't have been idly inserted.

Wolfowitz said that it was as if America were "idly watching a mugging".

A young woman who had been idly reading a golf magazine turns into Jordan Baker.

And it is extraordinary to visit it because nothing in it is idly itself.

You don't spend years working your way through "Being and Time" because you're idly interested.