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.

  • What is it about modern life (I wondered idly) that makes entrepreneurs want to celebrate and sell its micro-ness?

  • --Prudie, idly

  • 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.

  • To my mind, though, Jewish toughness of the sort that was in evidence in Entebbe, Uganda, 22 years ago, when armed Jews flew thousands of miles to rescue Jewish innocents from death, was one of the great moments in post-Holocaust Jewish history--a statement to the world that Jews will no longer sit idly by and watch themselves being oppressed.


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