Example sentences for: idly

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

  • Sand and sun Cuba certainly has, but most visitors who dare to step away from the beach will find it simply too beguiling to spend a whole holiday lying idly in front of their hotels.

  • --Prudie, idly

  • , Anthony Lewis in the New York Times ) accused the Clinton administration of idly standing by while the Communist tyrant oppresses his people.

  • After the arrival of Estrich, Bennett and I also wondered idly whether she would seize the chance to misrepresent our conversation as something unseemly, about which Bennett should be embarrassed.

  • Our profession, however, did not sit idly by.


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