My bed of vetch sloped gently toward the sun, being on the bank of a little winding creek which idled through the long grasses on its way to the Tantramar.
The stream itself, for a wonder grown drowsy, idled over its pebbly bed with a sleep-inducing murmur.
So he idled about the marble-columned lobby, now crowded with a typical early-autumn throng in quest of dinner and the various nocturnal amusements which the city offers at all times to the frequenters of its thousand temples.
I idled at the Hotel Cecil longing daily for news of Elma.
Compelled to remain inactive, I idled in the club with the recollection of that pictured face ever before me--the face of the unfortunate girl who wished her last message to be conveyed to Philip Hornby.
Yet past events have shown that you have forgotten those words of yours on the day when we idled in the Bois beneath the trees.
For an hour or so we idled together beneath the trees in the quaint old garden, where Edith had caused the gardener to swing the hammock I had sent her from Paris.
We had supper at a quiet little tavern, idled away an hour in drinking in the pleasant scene; and when dusk came went out again to the banks of the river.
Then he idled across to the corner of one of the half-dozen dark, deserted streets which converged there, as though awaiting some one.
We idled in the old courtyard watching Harris making his repairs, and after a final smoke upon the bench outside, we all retired about ten o'clock, at which hour the whole village seemed already in profound slumber.
I wondered sometimes, as we sat together in the big salle a manger or idled together under the trees in the pretty garden, whether she still thought of poor Guy Nicholson--or whether she was really pleased when alone with me.
In the eyes of the people who idled away the evenings in South State Street was the vacant purposeless stare of modern life accentuated and made horrible.
When the time came to go he waited and idled in the streets.
She idled about the drawing-room till three o'clock.
He idled about for a while, read half a page in a volume he took out of the box at hazard, then put on his overcoat and went out by the front door, which he locked behind him with the key he carried for his own convenience.
From where we idled Mr Batten pointed out to us the peaks Bengairn and Cairntosh and the highlands of Balmaghie, and related several archaeological facts that, in view of our forthcoming explorations, were of intense interest to us.
I idled away the morning, and about noon I received a note from the woman Bardi, in response to the letter I had sent her, making an appointment to meet me under the clock at Charing Cross Station at three o'clock.
In the afternoon they drove by way of Yardley to see how Ellen was getting on, or idled about Warehold, making little purchases at the shops and chatting with the village people, all of whom would come out to greet them.
Away off on the sky-line trailed the smoke of an incoming steamer; nearer in idled a schooner bound in to Barnegat Inlet with every sail set.
Mrs. Randall waited until the two little figures idled across the dooryard before she spoke.
Sterling had idled along, crossing and recrossing the restless stream that appeared to be hurrying away from the quiet of the mountains.
You have ridden horses, played tennis, idled about clubs.
You haveidled your time away, and you give every promise of continuing.
He was a born Bohemian, and he idled along until the day of his death.
And during those same years I have idled between Marlow Bridge and Temple Lock without encountering a skiff on the whole reach.
They were that we should separate immediately on entering the park, and that he should go alone to the spot indicated by the mysterious voice, while I idled in the vicinity.
Most of his friends were away shooting, therefore he idledalone for an hour over the paper and then returned to his chambers.
The morning he had idled away walking through Buchanan Street and the other main thoroughfares, where all the shops were closed and where the general aspect was inexpressibly dismal.
Once he went out four days with a company of Englishmen as guide to the geysers, and on his return he idled four weeks on the wharves, looking at the foreign seamen as they arrived by the boats.
On the poor glory of his village voyage as an athlete, he idled his days in bed and his nights at the tavern.
Dicky hinted that he would require some information about Lord Malice's past career and his family's history, but he assured them that he did not need it; and his eyes idled ironically with Dicky's face.
The next evening, just before dusk, after having idled about out of sight of the signal station nearly all day, Captain Shewell entered Golden Gate with the Hornet-of no squadron.
For years the man had idled upon the streets of the town, loitering about, boasting and talking.
He had idled and misspent too many years, been vaurien and ne'er-do-well too long to be sordid now.
He had gossiped and idled and coquetted with beauty before; but this was different, because the nature of the girl was different from all others he had met.
She idled along the towpath, plucking carelessly at the purple vetch which bordered the canal in luxuriant profusion.
As he idled back, her eyes were riveted on his face.
Roxanne moved her chair to where she could watch him and her mind idled drowsily on the bosom of the afternoon.
They drove about the dreaming lanes oridled in cheerful inanity upon lake or lawn.
Drawn by the sound, Skinner, wrapped to the chin in his blanket, idled toward the crowd, affording Glass a sight of his face for the first time.
All that morning the prisoner idled about the premises, followed at a distance by his guard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
