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Meanings of idling in English
Portuguese
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Examples for "idleness"
Examples for "idleness"
1
Laziness and idleness; evolution and revolution; poverty and misery; character and reputation.
2
Claire's idleness is good for at least one thing, though: gathering information.
3
This general languor is the effect of general luxury, of general idleness.
4
The husband lives in idleness, and has the care of the house.
5
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
1
Experts on Eisenhower said he is misunderstood as a disengaged, loafing president.
2
The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
3
The victory -and yet another day of loafing -was hers.
4
There was none of the loafing stride characteristic of the professional roundsman.
5
And I am running very short of ideas, I have been loafing.
Usage of idling in English
1
A police car was outside, with a detention van idling behind it.
2
Bernie waited, engine idling, just in case some stray polyp had escaped.
3
Then there were however many more stood by in that idling car.
4
There is no idling, rather some new-fangled way to deliver electricity cleanly.
5
It was not seemly for them to be idling in the drawing-rooms.
6
They paused, idling in the road, leaning out their windows to talk.
7
For a moment they just sat in the idling car, not talking.
8
I thank you, Mr. Glenarm; but I am not much for idling.
9
While I have been idling in my bed something dreadful has happened.
10
He left the engine idling to run the winch and the hoist.
11
He did not succeed in catching anyone idling or smoking or talking.
12
Both of them got out while the driver kept the engine idling.
13
The Toyota was idling behind the dugout of a small baseball diamond.
14
He was idling in Pall Mall, avoiding a man here and there.
15
They were working three days a week, and idling the other days.
16
She followed him through the manufactory, which was full of idling workers.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Idling through the time
Idling across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common