'idle' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'idle' with 16 example sentences.
- idle adjective
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: not in action or at work
: without a basis in reason or fact
: not in active use
: silly or trivial
: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
: not yielding a return
: not having a job
- idle verb
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: run disconnected or idle
: be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- idle noun
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: the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling
That's just idle speculation. We don't know what really happened.
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse!
This is just an idle threat.
The factory has been lying idle for a year.
He is ashamed of having been idle in his youth.
Idle hands are the Internet's workshop.
The engine stopped while it was idling.
She looks down on people who are idle.
Some boys are diligent, others are idle.
You are idle to the bone.
I spent idle days during the vacation.
Do not idle away your youth or you will regret it later.
He tends to be idle.
The rain kept the baseball team idle yesterday.
It is absurd to idle away the student life.
The machines are idle now.