idled

In the distance, hugging a T-wall, two Humvees idled door-to-door with their headlights on.

For lack of several hundred mine inspectors, thousands of coal miners could be idled.

Dozens of double-parked black sedans lined the block, and two large suburbans with Maryland license plates idled curbside.

Only two years after the devastating nuclear meltdown, Japan is set to reopen idled reactors.

Since the reactors have been idled, Japan has relied on “old energy”—coal and gas—for its needs.

Here have I idled away three whole days, and I can remain no longer, for time is precious to me.

Here, with the green groves stretching on every hand, the three women had idled out the warm, sweet afternoon.

Ugly wasn't a roarin' success as a producer—jist idled and fuddled until he got to be a man.

I idled over it for an hour and then reported back that I couldn't see a story in the suggestion.

Frequently he idled through the two settlements, and tried in awkward fashion to understand the personal side of the workers.