Example Sentences

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At a Detroit complex with factories for both gas-burning and electric F-150 trucks, Ford will idle production of the electric model and send the workers next door for an extra shift producing gas-powered F-150s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

General Motors said Friday it will idle for two weeks in April an assembly plant in Indiana that builds pickup trucks, over ongoing semiconductor chip shortages.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

The U.S. automaker said it will idle its German plants in Saarlouis and Cologne, mostly due to the global chip shortage.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2022

A groin injury late in training camp will idle him for about two weeks; Craig Anderson will start, with rookie Matt O’Connor as the backup.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2015

"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)