SLOTH in a Sentence

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For SLOTH, below is one of 8 sentences:
There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLOTH
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sloth
 n.  laziness; apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue; any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals
Classic Sentence:
1  On waking I lay long in bed yielding to sloth.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
2  Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
3  There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
4  His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
Example Sentence:
1  The sloth is at its busiest at sunset, using the word busy here in a most relaxed sense.
2  The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
3  Lying idly on the sofa while others worked, Reggie denied he was slothful: "I just supervise better lying down.".