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How to use idler in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word idler? Here are some examples.

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She was switching standard gauge cars without any kind of idler car on the three rail track.
He is a worthless idler and possesses a certain rough eloquence of expression.
The service rep had a look at it and said that it wasn't the water pump, but an idler pulley, meaning that the repair would be even cheaper.
The large drive sprocket is clearly visible to the front of the first road wheel and the idler wheel is at the back.
Each side of the suspension system comprises six roadwheels with a front drive sprocket and a rear idler but no track return roller.
The drive sprocket is at the rear and the idler at the front, and there are no track return rollers.
Someone might have oiled the rollers and idler pulley with too much oil or have gotten oil in some place it is not supposed to be.
To quote that great idler Jerome K Jerome, laziness is a subject on which I consider myself to be extremely au fait.
This mistress is an unemployed idler who does not have a construction company and has never had anything to do with construction.
He may be, on the one hand, a cross-roads idler striving to get into the State Legislature.
Most of the belts are off the machines, or on idler wheels, so that when the mill is running only the machine being used is operating.
First, the British idler has a more formidable work culture to contend with.
As a result, British films and TV programmes are littered with images of the archetypal work-shy idler.
Hodgkinson would be happy to know that over the years, I have become a bit of an idler.
You may be able to apply your label straight if you angle the container idler roller to correspond with the angel of the taper.
Moreover the resistance torque of the idler is increasing due to higher liquid friction which results in lower vibration amplitude.
Run the drive belt to the projector and tension the belt with soundhead idler assembly.
The web guides, particularly in the drying section, have been optimised and the angle of wrap improved at the idler rollers.
Install the new belt on the pulleys in the reverse order and re-tension with the idler pulley.
They then remove the track, track chains, sprocket, idler, and rollers.
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Fowell learnt very little at school, and was regarded as a dunce and an idler.
There is no room in the busy throng of ardent blackers for the idler or the fribble.
Mr. A. went on the street with a handball, and coaxed some stray idler to join him in a game.
The idler in the exedra, meanwhile, was awaiting the speech of her visitor.
He was like an idler basking in the sun, conscious of nothing but just the warmth and comfort of it.
Garry was now the young Laird, and I was but an idler, a burden on the estate.
She didn't approve of me because I was an idler and presumably a remittance man.
Some were busy at arithmetic, while, every moment, whack went the rod upon the crown of the idler or yawner.
He was the complete idler, living on his Uncle's bounty, and making no return for it.
I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church.
He gave the struggle his attention, as an idler might observe the feat of a juggler, without interest in the outcome.
Yet Theodore Roosevelt had long since determined not to be an idler.
Nicholson was ambitious for his family, and he hated to see a son of his play second fiddle to an idler.
He was called a worthless fool, a regular drunkard and idler.
He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler.
And he, son of a parvenu, led the life of a rich, elegant idler.
Also, being a magistrate, he had often to punish some idler or evil doer, by ordering him to be set in the stocks or scourged at the whipping-post.
Idler on its modern surface, or delver in its deep-hearted past, could he reconcile himself to it?
Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
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