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Example sentences for: idle

How can you use “idle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Indian Airlines plane hijacked Friday en route to New Delhi from Katmandu remained idle in southern Afghanistan yesterday, while hijackers issued demands.
She is, of course, right on both counts, yet idle curiosity persists.
In other words, there are some who believe that we might be well advised to attend to what Milton, Donne, Dryden, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Alcott, Dickens, and thousands of others have contributed to the molding of the language in all its reflexes and who find it difficult to understand the usefulness to be derived from an analysis of idle telephone and flatmate conversations, student essays read by no one other than the instructor charged with their marking, business letters read by no one other than their (individual) recipients, non-printed examination scripts exposed to nobody, social letters, classroom lessons, business transactions (between, for example, architect and 2 clients and solicitor and client), and so on.
We asked if we could rent one of the many trucks sitting idle in the parking lot.
Even Eric Idle, the movie's star , dismissed the film as "not funny."