For fully five minutes we stood in speechless amazement, with our freed hands hanging idly by our sides.

The body in the meantime stood in passive indifference, its arms hanging idly at its sides.

Two dusty fans, which I suspected had not moved since the French walked out in 1962, hung idly from the high ceiling.

The big man had got casually to his feet, and was hanging idly onto a handrail near the sliding doors.

Now his hands hung idly at his sides.

A metal bucket above the well hangs idly from its chain, no longer of any use.

He let his hand hang idly down.

He had expected Mike Borrango to throw up his hands, which were hanging idly at his sides.

At the ends of the stalks, just before the leaves began, were set groups of tendrils, which hung idly, serving no apparent purpose.

The world was so beautiful that Anne spent ten blissful minutes hanging idly over the garden gate drinking the loveliness in.