The line then lay idle for a number of years.

Her hands lay idle on the furs, as if she'd forgotten what she was about.

The Shadow lay idle for a full ten minutes; the closing of the steel door had made him safe from observation.

Plants lay idle, nothing to do-and no one to do it for them.

The connecting track lay idle for two decades before finally being removed in the mid-1990s.

The mine then lay idle until 1974, when it was reopened.

Some was given to rich people, and some of it lays idle.

Then came the recession, and the land lay idle.

After the plague, many farms lay idle while the population slowly increased.

Not one to lay idle, he embarked upon a number of business ventures.