How To Use Idling In A Sentence

Within 10 minutes we were idling towards a pod of six whales making their sedate way through the wide sweep of the sound opposite the lodge.
And two more points over an indifferent Brods side would see them leapfrog the visitors and move within touching distance of leaders Bridlington and York.
Dawn Remblance, from Bridlington, is influenced by the horse's name and the colour of jockey silks when it comes to backing horses.
Anyone caught parked with an idling engine can also be fined. Times, Sunday Times
Reducing the time vehicles are idling is also a focus of attention. Times, Sunday Times

The Heritage was working out of Scarborough and her crew are believed to be from Bridlington.
On the first of October all was ready for this audacious squibbing of the hornet's nest, and the fleet of investment (which kept its distance according to the weather and the tides) stood in, not bodily so as to arouse excitement, but a ship at a time sidling in towards the coast, and traversing one another's track, as if they were simply exchanging stations. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
Motorists will be urged to drive outside busy times and turn off their engines when idling. Times, Sunday Times
To see him at work you would think he was a mild-mannered postal worker, happily idling along on a red postie bike as he delivers the mail.
Anthony sighed, leaving the car engine idling.
Bridlington inshore lifeboat had saved 17 lives the previous summer.
Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems.
The Smiths quickly swapped their home in Keppel Crescent, Bridlington, for the Caribbean heat and a beachside hotel in the Barbados resort of Worthing.
I subsequently discovered that my new and non-sporting acquaintances were coffee-planters of a class then known as the Galle Face planters, who passed their time in cantering about the Colombo race-course and idling in the town, while their estates lay a hundred miles distant, uncared for, and naturally ruining their proprietors. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
Incredibly, with Bryant idling on the bench, the Lakers shook off their distractions and managed to thrash one of their supposed title rivals in their opening game.
Having already been shaved and powdered, he was now idling away an extra half-hour with a fresh news-sheet spread out upon his knee. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
With 4 inches of plaid boxer shorts visible above sagging jeans, Tony Mihalo fit almost perfectly into the teen crowd idling away the night in a Naperville bowling alley.
Unless we can think of something sharpish, Bridlington has been consigned to a slow death.
They increased their own effectiveness as a result, by improving the stability of their constituents, but at the same time they helped train an efficient modern work force and reduced the multitude of individual resistances to industrial society, ranging from idling on the job to theft and sabotage, that suggested far more fundamental hostility to modernity than the dictates of reason could counte - nance. PROTEST MOVEMENTS
The latest catch was a large mature male crab netted by Bridlington fisherman Andrew Sanderson last week.
Encouraged by how it has taken off, Donnelly plans to bring a motion to the Coquitlam city council to stop municipal vehicles from idling excessively.
It would be nice to see her building sandcastles on Bridlington beach with her kids.
The horses were idling around - how she loved to watch them their shiny coats, lissome bodies, the graceful tilt to their heads.
Motorists will be urged to drive outside busy times and turn off their engines when idling. Times, Sunday Times
He left the engine idling and ran into the shop.
With the car standing motionless now but with the engine still idling, she can smell foul fumes and heat.
Instantly, three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they'd been idling just a short distance along the road.
How about inviting a man out and idling away an hour over a cup of coffee? Times, Sunday Times
Every horse will become defensive towards the bridle if you repeatedly hit his teeth with the bit, so be considerate when unbridling your horse.
All summer long Dolly has flopped about during the heat of the day, stretching full length on the shady concrete pavers by the gate, idling away the hours she should have spent grooming.
I watched her run through traffic to a cab idling in front of the delivery van. DOUBTING THOMAS
We were just idling along northbound on Happy Valley Road just talking, laughing, and listing to rock and roll music.
Those willing started bridling the horses in simple snaffles.
Are our brains so "atrophied" that we now believe there is no other way for the Department of Transportation to learn what highways need fixing or that the MTA needs funds for its capital plan without a lobbyist for Houston or New York City sidling up to a federal official? Harry Moroz: Of Course We Need Lobbysists, Said the Lobbyist
Motorists will be urged to drive outside busy times and turn off their engines when idling. Times, Sunday Times
He would see himself mouth angry words back at the idling grinning shopkeepers, that would wipe away for ever the pasty smile off their faces.
It's easy as pie just to sit by the highway, idling, letting the drivers pass you by.
Walla Walla's main agricultural product used to be collected in the grain silos idling around town; its new mainstay is preserved in bottles, and poured for all comers on almost every corner.
He got up and saw that it was a two-seater Lotus, parked with its headlamps full on, the engine idling - too fast and too noisy. PASSION IN THE PEAK
With the squeal of abused metal, it grated to a halt, engine still idling.
After a year idling, Mike started to take music courses in 2003, met people with the same interest and formed a band.
Bridlington coastguard, the resort's inshore lifeboat and a helicopter from RAF Leconfield carried out a search yesterday morning.
I quickly put on the saddle and placed my helmet on before bridling.
The horses were idling around - how she loved to watch them their shiny coats, lissome bodies, the graceful tilt to their heads.
When she walked outside, the cab was already idling by the corner.
Amongst the which this last is of special use in moral and civil matters; how, I say, to set affection against affection, and to master one by another; even as we used to hunt beast with beast, and fly bird with bird, which otherwise percase we could not so easily recover: upon which foundation is erected that excellent use of praemium and paena, whereby civil states consist: employing the predominant affections of fear and hope, for the suppressing and bridling the rest. The Advancement of Learning
Anyone caught parked with an idling engine can also be fined. Times, Sunday Times
Still… if this blog is all that's going to keep me scribbling at the moment, I suppose I might as well keep it on the road - even if it is only idling along the kerb at 5 kph.
Evidence would also show the pair had practised using homemade weapons both at Morrison's flat in Bridlington and in a woodyard where a silhouette target was found by police.
The engine was idling, which made a comforting noise, and kept the blowers warm, which made her feel increasingly drowsy.
I know idling is bad for the air we all breathe, and I should turn off the engine to pump gas, and I won’t leave a child in a closed up car in the summer, and sometimes you can’t pay at the pump even if you want to. Home Alone | Her Bad Mother
Otherwise, it's sitting there idling, which isn't good for anyone. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Exhaust from idling diesel engines, especially from ready-mix concrete trucks, poured into this space.
Mr Wathey, who started his career in 1942 as a scenic artist at Bradford's Alhambra theatre, set up an artist's studio with David Hockney in Bridlington.
Motorists will be urged to drive outside busy times and turn off their engines when idling. Times, Sunday Times
Jacob said, My brethren -- Finding from the shepherds who were reposing there with flocks and who all belonged to Haran, that his relatives in Haran were well and that one of the family was shortly expected, he enquired why they were idling the best part of the day there instead of watering their flocks and sending them back to pasture. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The problem can also happen when the engine is idling. Times, Sunday Times
In Westmount, they ticket you for idling in a car for four minutes.
All this tends to impinge on idling time. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone caught parked with an idling engine can also be fined. Times, Sunday Times
The girls spin on; a kind of forewoman, Mary, upbraids Senta with idling and staring at the picture and dreaming away her life -- for the girl is quite open about her sympathy with the accursed seafaring man. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
In Bridlington, raw sewage was pumped straight on to the sand. Times, Sunday Times
Katy suddenly forgot she was now supposed to be bridling her horse.
He was idling a bit but he deserved this. The Sun
Reducing the time vehicles are idling is also a focus of attention. Times, Sunday Times
Saddling and bridling a horse would be a subject of its own and I will certainly follow up.
Since the recent purchase of a block of furnished flatlets in Bridlington, Yorkshire, self-catering holidays have become an attractive alternative.
So oil dilution isn't a problem when you're idling.
Booth's Steel were idling along in eighth spot at this time.
Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so.
Every day, open-backed trucks enter the city packed with families and their possessions - refugees returning home from years spent idling in Pakistan and Iran.
Such is the singer's perfect pitch and easy sensuality that she appeared to be idling in second gear for much of this show. Times, Sunday Times
It was a blur of revolving red lights on idling cars, and stern blue-uniformed men, and flashcubes popping everywhere.
The picture of the close-packed Jews tumbling or sidling churchwards to hear the Christian sermon (for He saith “Compel them to come in ") and to partake of heavenly grace has in it something of Rembrandt united with something of Callot. Robert Browning
The kidling, when she sees pictures of lions, roars. (it's v. cute) When she saw real lions roaring she giggled. MetaChat
An idling mind produces a weak learner who enjoys the comfort of leisure time. Dr T.P.Chia
The disused temporary school building has already been brought from Bridlington to York, and leaders are preparing to bring in engineers and a crane to hoist the four-part structure into place.
A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up. Ulysses
Otherwise, it's sitting there idling, which isn't good for anyone. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Is there a reason for this, or are you simply idling?
Having spent days idling in Shanghai, China's largest city, the players had never imagined the match would be so brutal and physical, especially in the second half.
The two had been staying at the Barcelona holiday home of Mr Hunter, who runs a fish and chip shop chain in Bridlington and is also a property developer.
And at the fire station, idling trucks expose firefighters to diesel exhaust.
The Parliamentary majority owes its seats to a great extent to the unbridling of the jingo instinct.
He had therefore not needed the vicar's admonition to contact the Thames Valley Police HQ at Kidlington. WIDOW'S END
The court heard how the former school governor also used a face-painting business on Bridlington pier as a front for his activities.
“The genius of idling is not its avoidance of work but rather its construction of a value system entirely independent of work.” Cover to Cover
The drive home from the office at rush hour consists of interminable shifting, idling, shifting, idling, the studied interplay of gears, the running up of the tach and hearing the engine whine with pure metal glee…
An old-time farmer might well have done that - and he would have been working, not idling.
For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, till the mast groaned aloud under the strain.
‘I was totally confused by it,’ she says, bridling at the memory.
He was idling a bit but he deserved this. The Sun
Don't take my word about idling being ineffective, but do listen to my mechanic, Rob Maier, who runs Maier's Garage in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
After joining York and North-East Yorkshire police force in 1969 as a 20-year-old probationer he served in Bridlington and Withernsea before returning to his native York.
By three o'clock that afternoon, idling on a green pathway in the company of Tuke Taylor and watching a farmer mow a flower-rich hay meadow, I felt a long, long way from Lisbon.
I'm sure all the vehicles idling in traffic and burning more fuel per mile while in the central city has no adverse effects on air quality at all either if you took every single car off the road in the central city, you'd still have pollution too high to be safe for humans and ecology. in other words, car exhaust is only a part of the problem. Guess who (cough) (Jack Bog's Blog)
The driver pointed a white-gloved hand in the direction of a small ferry boat waiting at the pier, its engine idling.
This man, noticing that a number of people were now idling on the path and that the whole force was being held up by a seer who was taking the auguries, asked the seer why they were stopping. In the Valley of the Shadow
The driver pointed a white-gloved hand in the direction of a small ferry boat waiting at the pier, its engine idling.
The driver pointed a white-gloved hand in the direction of a small ferry boat waiting at the pier, its engine idling.
Brian pulled into one of the angled parking slots in front of the building and sat, engine idling.
And while the Bridlington lifeboatmen were at church, the Filey lifeboat had launched in case there was a call-out.
Actually, the movie is set in the hotels and clubs of contemporary Tokyo, as the characters spend much of their time idling while waiting to complete their singular obligations.
But oh no: he waited, staring dead ahead, his jowls quivering to the vibrations of the idling engine. THE CALLIGRAPHER
The horses were idling around - how she loved to watch them their shiny coats, lissome bodies, the graceful tilt to their heads.
-- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Such is the singer's perfect pitch and easy sensuality that she appeared to be idling in second gear for much of this show. Times, Sunday Times
One day, sitting outside the venue with a glass of wine, I was conscious of a man sidling over to my table and pleading: ‘I'm trying to get a ticket to Zipp!’
A line of cars clogs the tree-lined street, engines idling in the sun.
Since the recent purchase of a block of furnished flatlets in Bridlington, Yorkshire, self-catering holidays have become an attractive alternative.
The excruciatingly beautiful clockwork ballerina's not by the Tate, which, though tragic, merely leaves me still idling along with no goal.
Wyatt spent the rest of his morning before Drama idling from class to class.
After quickly saddling and bridling Fleet, he grabbed the bay's reins and pulled the reluctant gelding outside into the pouring rain.
The Dike, extending from the rough North Sea to the calmer waters of Bridlington Bay, is nothing more than a deep dry trench, skillfully following the hollows of the ground, and cutting off Flamborough Head and a solid cantle of high land from the rest of Yorkshire. Mary Anerley
I don't remember any problems at idling, however, last weekend it died on idle when I was windlassing an anchor.
Idling above the world in a fat leather seat, snacking on a pastry and talking about the mile-high club, I wonder if we are less modern philanthropists, more latter-day dilettantes?
The Grade II-listed building at Leven, which is built in the shape of a cross, used to be a toll house at the junction of the main roads leading to Hull, Beverley, Bridlington and Hornsea.
The problem can also happen when the engine is idling. Times, Sunday Times
Reducing the time vehicles are idling is also a focus of attention. Times, Sunday Times
It is a place to escape to for days spent loafing in hammocks, meandering among the coconut palms in the garden or idling through pulp novels on the patio, all the time lulled by the pounding surf and the relentless whoosh of the trade winds.
As of Aug. 5, 21 complaints of long-term idling had been reported to the city's Environmental Services department, city spokesman Matt Laible said. Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories
Which is fine when we're idling along, watching the world change through Alexander's eyes, but makes the ending feel rushed, as if time was running out too quickly for anyone to think of anything better.
One issue that gets swept under the carpet is the increase in CO2 and other pollutants caused by heavier vehicle usage, and also there may be heavier traffic, causing jams and higher fuel consumption from idling. Loss of privacy from highway spying not an issue for most Japanese
-- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
I just sat outside, my car idling, waiting for her to shift to be over.
The driver pointed a white-gloved hand in the direction of a small ferry boat waiting at the pier, its engine idling.
There has been a controlled parking zone in Bridlington for three years but permits have been free.
Just at first glance, I could see a good hundred million people idling around outside and in the hallways waiting to catch their bait.
The driver left the car idling away.
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With that capability, a car's engine could be automatically shut off at stoplights, or any time the engine is idling for any length of time.
the engine is idling
In 1678, he spoke in favour of giving an aid to the king, and the following month obtained a commission for raising an independent company of foot, and was appointed governor of Bridlington.
I left them idling about, or feeding in the same desultory way. Times, Sunday Times
Carburetors for automobile engines usually contained a storage chamber for liquid fuel, a choke, an idling jet, a main jet, an airflow restriction, and an accelerator pump.
All this tends to impinge on idling time. Times, Sunday Times
An idling mind produces a weak learner who enjoys the comfort of leisure time. Dr T.P.Chia
The massive margin of victory recorded by Bridlington over Bolton Percy in no way reflected their close proximity in the league table where the coastal outfit leapfrogged their opponents after winning by 215 runs.
Whilst visiting Bridlington today we stopped at the harbour and found that the sea fret was still covering most of it.
She still hadn't arrived and the yacht's motors were idling and the galley crew had prepared a wonderful dinner.
To the bald eagle, a vulturish scavenger that will eat most anything, nothing is more inviting than a dazed and disabled coot idling on flat water.
It feels like unbridling your mind and just finding your desire to learn again.
One of the only farmers in the area to grow hemp, Sharon Shepherdson, watched on as the crop, some 10 ft high, was cut under lowering skies at Grindale, near Bridlington.
I’m not disagreeing with your conclusion, I’m just wondering — regenerative braking isn’t the only source of increased efficiency in hybrids (the lack of idling is another big one, for example.) Waldo Jaquith - New year’s resolution follow-up.
The current economic crisis isn't helping, however, as Severstal Wheeling has initiated a long-term idling of its local plants along the Ohio River. The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
As for me, I had a quiet night, crashing before 10 only to have the kidling wake me. *snort*
As well, the frequency of idling appears to decrease as a person ages - a retiree is the least likely to idle.
‘A… uh… word if I may,’ he smarms, sidling into Mission Control.
The majority of these are issued by local authority officers, but police and Environment Agency officers do issue some - ranging from £20 for unnecessary idling of a stationary vehicle engine to £500 for failing to comply with a noise warning notice in licenced premises. Fixed penalty notices in England: environment offences where you live
Motorists will be urged to drive outside busy times and turn off their engines when idling. Times, Sunday Times
It's as if the job now strikes them as a habit, and I think their fans are bridling at that.
If there are no independent commands in the queue at all, the FPU unit will be idling for 5 clocks.
Very well, I will," said the other; and, calling the starboard watch, who were idling about and having a quiet caulk in the waist, he soon made them set about reducing the _Josephine's_ canvas -- there being no necessity yet for summoning "all hands," as there was not a breath of air stirring, while the sea had hushed its monotonous roll, calming down to the quiet of a mill-pond. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
I trust this lot, with their permanent sidling up to business interests, about as much as I trusted the last lot.
The girls spin on; a kind of forewoman, Mary, upbraids Senta with idling and staring at the picture and dreaming away her life ” for the girl is quite open about her sympathy with the accursed seafaring man. Richard Wagner
The next time you're idling in Italy, try asking someone to explain it.
The railwayman is a sailor on earth and in the small ports without a sea line - the forest towns - the train runs and runs, unbridling the natural world.
Note that this is only a first-order analysis, and does not account for road networks or flight paths, border effects, idling times, switching costs, or aesthetic factors. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Bushbuddy and Littlbug Wood Stoves
Never leave the saw unattended with the engine idling.
Carburetors for automobile engines usually contained a storage chamber for liquid fuel, a choke, an idling jet, a main jet, an airflow restriction, and an accelerator pump.
These neurons, called idling neurons, are still alive, but have been damaged to the extent that their function is compromised. WN.com - Articles related to These old eyes
The commissioner also heard that on other occasions a Hunter's coach had been found with a defective tyre in Bridlington, and another had a defective speed limiter.
He was idling a bit but he deserved this. The Sun
The parts are fabbed using ‘custom low-leakage silicon transistors’, to cut the amount of power wasted by chip components even when idling.
How about inviting a man out and idling away an hour over a cup of coffee? Times, Sunday Times
Residents were mowing their lawns, washing their cars and otherwise idling away a pleasant, sunny day.
The sloop 's engine was still idling, as Rice trimmed the jib. RUSHING TO PARADISE
The problem can also happen when the engine is idling. Times, Sunday Times
Last week we journeyed to Bridlington and Scarborough to reminisce about bygone summer holidays.
But as we were coming out of the doorway, running across there, sidling round the side was the inspector.
In the idling zone the surface includes a plurality of shallow depressions disposed in an annular zone.
They showed less engagement of attentional control areas, and those tested in the afternoon were 'idling'. Times, Sunday Times
A transducer carrier is radially positionable relative to the magnetic recording surface and can be moved between recording portions and idling portions of the annular surface.
All this tends to impinge on idling time. Times, Sunday Times
What actually happened was that the engines were reduced in power (they were almost idling when she hit). Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
Bishop then came undesignedly sidling in the direction of the sideboard. Little Dorrit
A black dry fluffy colored plug is caused by excessive idling of the bike or by deposits from a carburetor rich with too much gas.
Some motorists are already keeping their vehicles idling overnight to stop them freezing. Times, Sunday Times
On the way home, though, we ran into Sammy & kidlings, and the Elder Kidling has swim classes at the Mardyke on Mondays, so at the very least I can join them for a while and see if the pool is actually worth paying the gym fee for. Holiday? what’s a holiday?
Harper Simon as a kidling with his famous daddy singing "Bingo" in the studio (and record manufacturing?): Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Hall & Oates, Baez & Dylan, Simon & Ondrasik, and More
Bridlington now head the league, albeit on points difference only.
I hadn't been around ice cream trucks in a long time and I had forgotten the way they stopped whenever enough slavering children gathered round to make the wasteful idling of the engine economical.
Some motorists are already keeping their vehicles idling overnight to stop them freezing. Times, Sunday Times
Goals by Adam Wash, Phil O'Reilly, with two corkers, and Mark Wood won it for Pickering, who face Bridlington in the final of the Wilkinson Sword Trophy second leg tomorrow night.
Marconi is the person at Weidlinger whose mind is currently cradling the vorticity confinement idea.
Wasn't for the iPod and iPhone, they wouldn't be ahead of anybody in anything now, and the competition is just idling along, waiting for Apple to reach for its hogleg. Archive 2009-07-01
But oh no: he waited, staring dead ahead, his jowls quivering to the vibrations of the idling engine. THE CALLIGRAPHER
I left them idling about, or feeding in the same desultory way. Times, Sunday Times
‘The engine is idling, and we're ready to rev it up at a moment's notice,’ says Ken Johnson, a spokesman for co-sponsor Rep.
Not that she had been idling away her time until her vocation called - Coppola already had a successful street wear clothing company called Milk Fed and a career as a photographer to her name, both of which she intends to continue.
What actually happened was that the engines were reduced in power (they were almost idling when she hit). Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
Some motorists are already keeping their vehicles idling overnight to stop them freezing. Times, Sunday Times
He was in charge of the elderly care unit at the local cottage hospital and did his own obstetric care, delivering many Bridlington babies.
At last an end to blokes idling morosely in Monsoon while the women they are browsing with compare a succession of near identical burgundy velvet.
More than 20 states have introduced anti-idling laws that were written primarily to stop truckers from leaving their rigs idling for long periods.
Nice work on the kidling, good to get him out there young! Blog: Awkward Soccer and a Conundrum
A line of cars clogs the tree-lined street, engines idling in the sun.
Buses and vans idling for a half hour at 12: 30 a.m. while bands load their gear is not a viable practice for a residential block.
After making the snap decision to leave Bridlington, wreathed in torrential rain, we headed for Northumberland, a two-and-a-half hour drive away.
With the engine throttled right back, I was once again very aware of the very slow and somewhat erratic airborne idling characteristics of the Kestrel.

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