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How to use idled in a sentence

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I idled up beside him, lighting a cigarette, asking him what the problem was.
This new route presents a golden opportunity to use the rolling stock that was mostly idled when the Blainville line was electrified.
The horse was a bit green and just idled when he hit the front, but hey, don't be greedy!
We idled over a structure loaded with kings stimulated into a feeding frenzy by generous helpings of chum.
Meanwhile, 200 ships up and down the West Coast, 10,000 longshoremen and about one million containers remain idled by this dispute.
In the shade of a sycamore grove, bikers sat cross-legged on idled Harleys, heckling the gapers and high-fiving each other.
A world record holding hydroplane which for more than a decade has idled on terra firma in a South Lakeland museum is to take to the water again.
These impacts were directly attributable to the reduced output associated with the land idled under the program.
The Tennessee Valley Authority said its Browns Ferry No.1 nuclear reactor in Athens was idled Saturday for continued testing following a 22-year shutdown.
Unlike the idled coal operation, the railroad division no longer existed within the corporate family during the period of investigation.
Thinking of the last day that you drove your vehicle, how many times do you think you idled your engine before you began driving?
These sessions also indicated a low level of knowledge regarding how long a vehicle should be idled before being driven.
The monitors recorded not only if a vehicle was idling, but also the duration of time that it idled.
In 2003, this facility was indefinitely idled, due to poor market conditions.
Thinking of those occasions, on average, for how long do you think you idled the engine?
Participants indicated that they idled their engines anywhere from a couple of minutes up to 40 minutes each day.
Several production lines that had been idled in 2008 and 2009 came back on stream during the first half.
One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion.
Motors idled, and tailpipes puffed and nobody was going anywhere.
The auto industry began 2001 in a tailspin, with dozens of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler plants temporarily idled for periods of a week or more.
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On the contrary, he always corrected him when he prevaricated, and scolded him when he idled.
Caroline always wanted to do something, when Norma could have dreamed and idled in her deck chair by the hour.
The great generators idled and automatically came to a stop.
Again I followed the woodland paths along which I had once idled so happily with my little Mary.
Now, however, he idled, thinking how sloppy the streets would be.
For a while he idled, and then he had an attack of delirium tremens.
So explained the artillerist while the pair idled back to the open deck.
She turned over slowly, fired twice, idled, then fired again.
All the evening, indeed, he idled, chatting with men and women he knew.
He was possibly in front a little too long as he drifted slight and maybe idled, allowing the well-regarded and Group One-bound Gerfalcon to collar him close home.
Arnold and the other guests had idled out again on to the lawn.
Neptune was already unsubstantial in the twilight, half god, half ghost, and his fountain plashed dreamily to the men and satyrs who idled together on its marge.
He was possibly in front a little too long as he drifted slight and maybe idled, allowing the wellregarded and Group One-bound Gerfalcon to collar him close home.
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