- present participle of idle.
idling
Example Sentences
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Video of the confrontation appears to show Nelson idling in a snowy strip mall parking lot in his gray Dodge Ram when another driver in an even larger pickup pulls in beside him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Many Mittelstand firms are idling workers, cutting jobs or shifting production, including to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The officer walked up to my idling Impala and informed me that my left taillight was out.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
More than 200 tankers are idling on both sides of the strait, leaving Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar unable to transport crude oil and petroleum products.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
A big tractor-semitrailer rig was idling out front; Rod Wolf, one of Westerberg’s employees, needed to haul a load of sunflower seeds to Enderlin, North Dakota, and had agreed to drive McCandless to Interstate 94.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
