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Officials hope that makeshift system will free up ambulances now sitting idle outside hospitals because their patients can’t be admitted.

A rare exception came early in the pandemic in March, when an apparel returns warehouse was idled by order of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear after an outbreak there.

And in the summer, when the lift is idle, it feeds juice into the local community.

Middle-aged, out-of-shape Putin sat idle and silent as his dreams and hopes for the future were destroyed.

Any upcoming release of a new Apple product guarantees a deafening cacophony of idle speculation from tech sites.

The rest of the police looked on, sitting idle on horses in front of Starbucks.

The idle rich had driven down from Biarritz with their uniformed chauffeurs.

It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.

He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.

There was a deep silence throughout the whole bivouac; some were sleeping, and those who watched were in no humour for idle chat.

While the fortress was undermining at home, they were not idle, who were preparing to storm it from abroad.

The lower class were idle and lazy, and willing to serve any sovereign who appealed to them by ostentation.