idle

How To Use idle In A Sentence

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo 
• It did in fact return many idled workers to the work force and created a good deal of useful infrastructure but that was then, this is now. Matthew Yglesias » Where is the Jobs Strategy?
• I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
• He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. The Harvard Crimson :: News
• She's so relaxed in behind but idles as soon as she hits the front.
• Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil. 
• Men are left idle when machines break down.
• This appears to have led to his death after he lost control of a scooter on a bridleway above the Wharfe's steep banks near his home. Jimi Heselden obituary
• Os ydy'r drefn yn cael ei mabwysiadu un o'r dewisiadau pwysicaf fydd penderfynu p'un ai i ganiatáu i bobol pleidleisio "uwchben y lein" sef y drefn sy'n cael ei defnyddio yn Awstralia. BBC Blog Network
• It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles. Times, Sunday Times