Example Sentences

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Idled golfers may seem low on any list of tribulations caused by Covid-19.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

Idled and deserted wells can waft fumes into homes, emit climate-warming methane, leak salty water into aquifers and drip oil.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2020

Idled mining equipment and idled miners were needed only a few days a year, to rip ground and get it ready for trees, Nathan Hall, an eastern Kentuckian and one of GFW’s first hires, said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Idled metals-making facilities in Illinois, Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri and Kentucky have reopened, while new plants are on the drawing board in Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri and Texas, Ross said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2018

It was a summer evening; Old Kaspar was at home, Sitting before his cottage door— Like in the Southey pome— And near him, with a magazine, Idled his grandchild, Geraldine.

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)