Examples of 'be idle' in a sentence

Meaning of "be idle"

be idle ~ to not be busy or actively working on something, often implying a lack of productivity or purpose

How to use "be idle" in a sentence

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A pity it should be idle all these years.
I hope succeeding generations will be able to be idle.
So as you can be idle in our own house.
No one is sent into the world to be idle.
That means to be idle for a few days.
But he will not let delegations be idle either.
It would be idle to go into details of technique here.
But we are not content to be idle dreamers.
I will not be idle during that time.
I have never known you to be idle.
Workers will be idle in the absence of motivation.
I daresay it may only be idle gossip.
It would be idle to pretend that you are especially handsome.
You will not be idle anymore.
It would be idle to attempt to describe the prevailing excitement.

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But that does not mean you will be idle.
You must be idle these days.
Now is not the time to be idle.
If the battery is to be idle for an extended period a month or.
Hope that soon would turn out to be idle.
We should not be idle like the incumbent government.
Because they lack the necessary training to be idle.
It seems a pity it should be idle all these years.
But even he knew that it is not good to be idle.
I shall be idle and brutal.
Do not let your heart and mind be idle.
There will be idle gossip and your marriage is close.
Boy could not bear to be idle.
It would be idle for us to cover the same ground in detail.
This is not a time to be idle.
It would be idle to pretend that any group of nations is homogeneous.
We can not afford to be idle.
How to be idle and blessed.
I do not know how to be idle.
It would be idle to complain or lament.
Our factories and our workers should not be idle.
I will be idle in my ideals.
I can not bear to be idle.
You can not be idle and indolent in the new world.
That there is undeniable truth to this it would be idle to dispute.
It would be idle to suggest that they did not know what they were doing.
No man has a right to be idle.
They must not be idle because tools or environments are not available.
We were never meant to be idle beings.
One column can be idle while the other column is pretreating.
He does not like to be idle.
It would be idle to deny that the great principle which lies at the.
I do not plan to be idle.
He could be idle for long period of times before being called to resume work.
No one should be idle.

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