LAZY in a Sentence

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For LAZY, below is one of 90 sentences:
Thousands of them aren't working at all and the ones we can get to work at the mill are so lazy and shiftless they aren't worth having.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAZY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lazy
 a.  disinclined to work or exertion
 a.  moving slowly and gently
Classic Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The gravel flew again and across her vision a man on horseback galloped over the green lawn toward the lazy group under the trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Rhett looked lazy and his voice had a silky, almost bored, note.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Tom and the lazy long-legged twins with their love of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing master and the tongue of a wasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  The day was hot and the flies came in the open windows in swarms, fat lazy flies that broke the spirits of the men as pain could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  But Scarlett saw him drop his eyes before the lazy, penetrating look Rhett gave him, and she was frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  And the lazy streams were redder now than ever Georgia clay could make them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  There were no sounds of negroes' lazy voices in neighboring kitchens, no pleasant sounds of breakfasts being prepared, for all the near neighbors except Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether had refugeed to Macon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Or as full of lazy insolent flies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  The lazy luxury of the old days was gone, never to return.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  Thousands of them aren't working at all and the ones we can get to work at the mill are so lazy and shiftless they aren't worth having.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Atlanta was crowded with them and still they came by the hundreds, lazy and dangerous as a result of the new doctrines being taught them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  He will never admit to me that he is lazy.
2  A lazy youth, a lousy age.
3  He felt too lazy to get out of bed.
4  He would not demean himself to a lazy worker.
5  The coach admonished the girls for being lazy.
6  The coach often chews out lazy players.
7  No opportunity for the lazy, but diligence can make the most common variable opportunity opportunity.
8  The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
9  He's a classic example of a kid who's clever but lazy.
10  A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
11  The problem is that, au fond , he's very lazy.
12  Laziness and poor forever is shameful, so everyone will try their best to conceal from others property, to conceal their lazy.
13  He is lazy, and furthermore, he has no sense of responsibility.
14  He is a lazy devil and keeps his talent in a napkin, with his ability and a little energy he could set the Thames on fire.
15  They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words.