Example sentences for: idleness

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

  • And, an essayist argues that the Internet is "a monument to idleness and wasted time," then explains why that's good.

  • Meanwhile, Japan--the world's second-largest economy and a country that by normal criteria ought to have no trouble increasing demand--finds itself stuck in exactly the trap Burnham described: "no longer able to find uses for the available investment funds, which waste in idleness in the account books of the banks."

  • Capitalism is no longer able to find uses for the available investment funds, which waste in idleness in the account books of the banks.

  • 3. "Real fulfillment in your life will come not from leisure, not from idleness, not from self-indulgence, but rather from striving with all your physical and spiritual might for a worthwhile objective."


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