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Example sentences for: idle

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Paxon's hasty departure and whatever invisible machinations lie behind it show that the devil makes work for idle hands.
It can also refer to a more idle, juvenile form of daydreaming--to the heated but generic longing a pop star evokes, for instance, when he wails, "I want you."
Peak Net.Jet software uses idle modem time to download pages it thinks--based on pages you frequent--you probably want to read.
Indeed, as the workers and factories left idle by the slump went back to work, output soared: Real GDP grew almost 7 percent during 1983, and in 1984 Ronald Reagan was triumphantly re-elected under the slogan "It's morning in America."
The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.