Example Sentences

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Other facilities in Yokohama allow a ship that is idling at the port to be powered electronically instead of burning heavily polluting marine fuel oil.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

I can hear the murmurous, gently swelling music of Rotview Balcony, a place of crimson skies and arid landscape, playing from the other room where the game is idling as I type this sentence.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

And in between speaking engagements — while she is idling in hotels or awaiting delayed flights — she is teaching herself to play the ukulele, strumming under the tutelage of YouTube videos and ukulele apps.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018

The prospect of missing the 2020 goal doesn’t mean recycling machinery is idling.

From Washington Times • Dec. 26, 2018

And then we are out in the impossible cold, leaving trails of footprints in the snow from the dorm entrance to where his truck is idling.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour