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How to use idling in a sentence

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It was a blur of revolving red lights on idling cars, and stern blue-uniformed men, and flashcubes popping everywhere.
Our trucks have a mechanism that automatically shuts the engine off if it's idling over the limit.
Our tester had the new Cummins High Output turbo diesel, which aside from making sweet music both idling and running, is a great, torquey engine.
She still hadn't arrived and the yacht's motors were idling and the galley crew had prepared a wonderful dinner.
If he was 12 years old, and we were boating today in Illinois, he would be required to wear a life jacket while idling through a harbor.
A black dry fluffy colored plug is caused by excessive idling of the bike or by deposits from a carburetor rich with too much gas.
Brian pulled into one of the angled parking slots in front of the building and sat, engine idling.
Within 10 minutes we were idling towards a pod of six whales making their sedate way through the wide sweep of the sound opposite the lodge.
But for manufacturers to use their idling workforce to their own ends reminds us of the beggar's use of the woeful dog he has just kicked.
He would see himself mouth angry words back at the idling grinning shopkeepers, that would wipe away for ever the pasty smile off their faces.
The engine was idling, which made a comforting noise, and kept the blowers warm, which made her feel increasingly drowsy.
For them, another weekday without work would only increase the emptiness and disconsolateness caused by idling away spare time.
I don't remember any problems at idling, however, last weekend it died on idle when I was windlassing an anchor.
If there are no independent commands in the queue at all, the FPU unit will be idling for 5 clocks.
The driver pointed a white-gloved hand in the direction of a small ferry boat waiting at the pier, its engine idling.
It's easy as pie just to sit by the highway, idling, letting the drivers pass you by.
The excruciatingly beautiful clockwork ballerina's not by the Tate, which, though tragic, merely leaves me still idling along with no goal.
After a year idling, Mike started to take music courses in 2003, met people with the same interest and formed a band.
But automakers should learn to illuminate them only when in gear, not while idling in park.
In the idling zone the surface includes a plurality of shallow depressions disposed in an annular zone.
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The slight altercation drew the attention of Asad's officers who were idling there.
As the adjustment is changed on the knurled screw a difference in the idling of the engine should be noticed.
If I were here I should be fighting, instead of swilling wine and idling as do these men.
What's all that loafing about galleries, I ask ye, but the worst of all idling?
We could see the toffs in evening dress idling in the glow of her electric lights.
An idling or primary nozzle is arranged to discharge above the top of the Venturi throat.
The bars were worn so that noncoms wouldn't be snatching for other duties, messengers idling between missions.
Mdrie Gautruche was one of the wenching, idling, vagabond workmen who make their whole life a Monday.
You'd be a great one for keeping him steady at his work, for he's after idling and blathering to this hour from the dawn of day.
The idling engines were speeded up and the flying boat moved slowly across the harbor.
He jumped back into his cockpit, gave his still idling motor the gun and took off, his goofy student still in the rear seat.
Then she stopped, lying still in dead water with her engine idling.
But pick it up, and don't stand idling there like a flamingo.
She pointed through the window to a group of boatmen idling, as only nautical men can idle, against the garden wall.
There were no induction-surges from even pulsing, idling engines.
You never see a Unionist idling the day away at street-corners.
Menton is not wholly an idling community like Monte Carlo and Monaco.
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