Idling [adjective]

Speaking of special touches, I was sad to see the piano idle midweek but cheered to hear it’s played on Fridays and Saturdays.

These strategies leave the battery "idle" for portions of the day—for comparison, imagine purchasing a taxi but only running it in the mornings.

Computers, TVs and other electronics generate a lot of heat when sitting idle or even when turned off.

The app aims to give users controls to designate when they’re heads-down, need to talk or just open for some idle chitchat.

By definition this meant lower returns—because banks had to leave some capital idle rather than deploy it.

A big gray sedan stood in the middle of the road, the motor idling.

With a half-smile he rose, and going to the door he bade his page who was idling in the anteroom go summon the captain.

When he ought to have been in school, he was fishing, and idling away his time along the margins of the brooks and rivers.

The next day I pleaded indisposition and spent most of the hours idling and drowsing in my chamber.

The next morning the wicked sister, as she sat idling by the stove, took a fancy for some strawberries.