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Example sentences for "idler"

Lexicographically close words:
idle; idled; idlenes; idleness; idlenesse; idlers; idlesse; idlest; idling; idly
  1. They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet.

  2. Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

  3. To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.

  4. An allusion to his Rambler or his Idler is not readily apprehended in literary circles.

  5. The Idler may be described as a second part of the Rambler, somewhat livelier and somewhat weaker than the first part.

  6. The parasite pluckily sets to; the idler becomes a glutton for work.

  7. No doubt, in the human race, the idler who feeds at other people's tables is contemptible at all points; but must the animal bear the burden of the indignation inspired by our own vices?

  8. The other Bees and Wasps behave likewise: never, I say never, do we find among them an idler assiduously planning the conquest of her neighbour's possessions.

  9. Within reach of the idler majority, there is a walk, a drive, or a point of view for each day of the month.

  10. The Cerizet holds the charm of its wildness alike for the idler and the lover of nature.

  11. The idler she is, the less she does for her children.

  12. But she, with ever idler hands, must stay behind.

  13. The idler is father of the madman in the sense that the child is the father of the.

  14. She laughs in her sleeve, the mighty mother, watching you with covert, laughing eye, ready relentlessly to cast the whole of your work into the dust if you do but give her the chance, if you turn idler and grow careless.

  15. I am now an idler and cumberer of the ground; it may be excused to me perhaps by twenty years of industry and ill-health, which have taken the cream off the milk.

  16. Even were he an idler and a parasite and nothing worse, however, he has no claim to be tolerated.

  17. For if we begin to exterminate the idler of the highway, we must, in fairness, deal with his kinsman of the street and of the workhouse.

  18. Till with a sudden bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again.

  19. To investigate the sufferings of the laborer is to the idler the most intolerable of amusements; just as to do justice to the fortunate is to the miserable the bitterest of draughts.

  20. You have taken up this thought To play with, for a gentle stimulant, To give a dignity to idler life By the dim prospect of emprise to come, But ever with the softening, sure belief, That all would end some strange way right at last.

  21. He drinks No plague so long as thirst for knowledge--not An idler impulse--prompts inquiry.

  22. Of course, I am an incorrigible idler compared to you, but, believe me, my heart has ached at times over your sense of duty!

  23. In the Idler there is more brevity, and consequently more compression.

  24. Clarissa and Polly artfully took advantage of this feeling, and talked about Lois' accomplishments so persistently that even the least interested admitted that she was the very girl for the Idler Presidency.

  25. My clothes have been here many times at the Idler dramatics, but this is the first opportunity that I have had for coming myself.

  26. This Open Idler of their Sophomore year happened to be the first one for Julia and Ruth.

  27. I'm not the person of talent for whom the Idler is looking.

  28. There had been times, of course, when popularity and the thought of being Idler President would have given her a great joy.

  29. She remembered that it was in this very corner of this very room she had found Pamela looking so forlorn on the day of the first Idler reception.

  30. Pressing nearer the board, one of the group read aloud that all Radcliffe students, regular or special, were invited to a meeting of the Idler Club on Friday afternoon at half-past four in the Auditorium.

  31. Oh, the Idler is the only unexclusive institution that I've struck in this part of the world.

  32. When she found that Pamela had decided not to go to the Idler because she had no suitable gown, she brought forward the one that she had had made.

  33. I can't vouch for the story, but they say that a Senior who came once to an Open Idler thought it necessary to express his gratification to some one in authority.

  34. Then when Lois was elected Idler President, Polly went about beaming.

  35. Annabel was still a conspicuous figure at the Idler theatricals, and she had even written a little play herself.

  36. Do you remember that rehearsal performance of the Idler when Annabel sang so long before the curtain went up?

  37. Girls were gathering in the room to witness an Idler play.

  38. The Idler President again appeared in front of the curtain and said something to Annabel.

  39. She didn't approve of me because I was an idler and presumably a remittance man.

  40. Being young, one side of him had at times envied their easy life; but another side of him held for them the grim, bitter scorn of the worker for the idler and waster.

  41. Chetwood in overalls, with nailed boots, hard and brown, differed materially from the young idler of the summer before, but his cheery good nature was unchanged.

  42. I am not quite the idler I used to be," Dominey explained, frowning.

  43. I am a dreadful idler myself; but then, I am a woman, and idleness is a woman's right.

  44. I have been given to understand that you are far from being an idler just now.

  45. When the cutter spindle is vertical the belt runs directly to it from the overhead counter shaft, but when it is horizontal the belt passes over idler pulleys, held above the lathe.

  46. When therefore a maximum increase of driving power is required, the idler must be placed near to the smallest pulley, the desired effect being paid for in the increased amount of motive power required to rotate the driving pulley.

  47. The boring spindle is driven by an idler pulley, direct from the countershaft.

  48. If the circumstances will not permit this and the sag of the belt operates to practically incapacitate the belt for its duty, what is termed an idle wheel or idler may be employed as shown in Fig.

  49. The stars and stripes, moving over the two wings of the capitol at eleven announce that the two chambers of legislation are in session, and the hard working idler makes his way to the senate or the house.

  50. Every fellow in a slouched hat—every idler on a tavern bench—every saunterer with a dog at his heels on the highway—should be a deer-stealer from Charlecote.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beachcomber; beggar; bum; bummer; bungler; dawdle; dogie; gamin; hobo; idler; laggard; loafer; loiterer; lounger; lubber; malingerer; mope; parasite; piker; ragamuffin; ragman; ragpicker; rounder; shirker; slacker; slouch; slug; sluggard; slut; stiff; stray; sundowner; swagman; tramp; trifler; truant; urchin; vagabond; vagrant; waif; wastrel