idle
Example Sentences
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But the effort to get his orchestra on its feet was not an idle gesture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
He has also restarted a stock-buyback program that had been idle since 2024 and bought a stake in an insurer in Japan that deepened Berkshire’s interests there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
And when my thoughts go idle, they drift to new happy memories that I’ve made all myself: A rainbow over a mountain range after a terrifying hail storm in Texas.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
The physical bottleneck clears only if power, grid, cooling and construction scale fast enough to keep the money being spent from sitting idle in a queue.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
As they were waiting for orders, black men and women were too excited to sit idle.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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