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Example sentences for: idly

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

You'll notice that in my last sentence I idly speculated on the Aon company's use of the Exxon example.
, Anthony Lewis in the New York Times ) accused the Clinton administration of idly standing by while the Communist tyrant oppresses his people.
Then, after frying Bush for having a view, idly wondering if he is an anti-Semite, and criticizing him for trying to avoid a theological quagmire in the midst of a political campaign, Kinsley attacks him and others for not sticking to their true views and also criticizes the general public (to which he was pandering only a few column inches previously) for caring about what other people believe about such issues.
Our profession, however, did not sit idly by.
His languid figures lined up across the canvas do almost nothing; they can sometimes work up the energy to idly pluck a lute, or to roll the dice on a backgammon table (see , at the Metropolitan).