Example Sentences

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Dr. I am idling, as you see; doing just nothing at all.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

But there, I am idling you, and I suppose you are busy directing the management of your estates, which are to be——Oh, there!

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular—I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.

From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

O God of righteousness—and I am idling here—leading a life of holidays—and my soul's soul is ready to quit the earth, and leave me a rotten corse!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various