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Example sentences for: idle

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Accompanying articles describe three Chinese towns: One town is decrepit, polluted, and filled with idle, state-owned factories; one is experimenting with private farming and local democracy; one is bustling with capitalism.
Then, whenever your computer has been idle for a few minutes, this news and these ads pop up on the custom screen saver the software has installed on your machine.
She is, of course, right on both counts, yet idle curiosity persists.
The main square, Plaça Constitució, is a good place to idle for a while and absorb the appealing character of the town.
Or are all these vivid specters really just idle speculations that will never come to pass?