Sentence examples for we were idling from inspiring English sources

While that was certainly a part of that age for us, it wasn't at all where we were idling with our friends at bars.

While driving around Red Bank, we were idling at a red light near the water when he flicked his cigarette out the window.

On the first day that photographer Dominick Tyler joined me, we were idling about not far from the shore, looking for mackerel, when he pointed to a disturbance in the water.

After quick introductions, cooler-loading, and total-body sunscreen application, we were idling out of the narrow channel from Treasure Cay Marina to the open waters of the Abaco Sea.

"We are idling," David said.

For all the mundanity of its subject matter, the excerpt presents boredom as something more strenuous and exalted than the friendly helper depicted by the neuroscientists, keeping our minds revved up even when we think we're idling.

Do you think it gave him a bad hangover once?" "They've figured more of us will be drinking cider on park benches soon so might as well tax us more while we're idling about," reasoned KenBarlow.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

We're idling and floating, almost like a hot air balloon.

"We're idled at the green light of opportunity," Mr. Beard said.

As four our self, of whom we can speak more knowingly, we have always attempted to organize our day so that we never had anything in particular to do in the slim hope that if only we were idle enough, perhaps we might grow thoughtful.