In course of time his eyes opened; and he lay for a few moments as people newly roused sometimes will, gazing indolently at his visitor, without any distinct consciousness of his presence.
Meanwhile, in a chapel at Emissa, a boy was dancing indolently to the kiss of flutes.
At a signal the scaffold fell, the hill crumbled, and from it a few hyenas issued, who indolently devoured their prey.
Children exert themselves perceptibly in their first attempts to speak, answer indolently or not at all, or frequently with embarrassment, always slowly, often with drawl and monotone, very frequently coming to a stop.
Above, a beautiful flag, striped and starred with white, blue, and red, flaps indolently against the mast.
Students, wearing squat caps with vizors, sauntered indolently along, twirling canes and ogling all who wore petticoats.
He looked indolently and wearily up from under the long lashes of his lids, and went on, as though they had not spoken.
I have resided in New York, and I am not familiar with the name," said the person, throwing her head back indolently among the cushions.
After a while she sat down on a step, and leaned her head back against the railing; her eyes were fixed indolently upon the sea.
To his surprise it was Garda; she was leaning indolently back on the cushioned seat, the reins held idly in her hand, an immense bunch of roses fastened in her belt.
I heard, now, too, an occasional sleepy twitter as if a few members of the orchestra had come into their places and were indolently testing the tune of their pipes.
She was in her second quarter, and seemed to be indolently rolling down towards the horizon, the whole pose of the scene giving her the effect of being half-recumbent.
She looked indolently at the reflected beauties of her neck and bosom, as she unplaited her hair and threw it back in one great mass over her shoulders.
So must you fellows," remarked Mike, placidly, as he indolently shifted one leg over the other and bent forward.
Cobb, leaning his head far back in his chair, and blowing smoke upwards, indolently meditating over something that did not go down very well.
Mother," said Star, as that lean creature cameindolently into the room, "I have quit my job.
Had it been summer they would have gone out together and indolently sipped two long Tom Collinses, as they wilted their collars and watched the faintly diverting round of some lazy August cabaret.
They plunged like divers into the dark eddying crowd and emerging in the cool fifties sauntered indolently homeward, infinitely romantic to each other .
Between paragraphs Anthony would come and kiss her as she lay indolently in the hammock.
Princess, unfurling her fan and waving it indolently to and fro.
In a half-reclining attitude of indolently graceful ease, the Princess Ziska watched from beneath the slumbrous shadow of her long-fringed eyelids the approach of her now scarcely-to-be controlled lover.
No, just loafin' 'round," drawled the visitor as he settled indolently into a chair which creaked its complaint under his weight.
He crossed his legs and slouched more indolently into his chair in the attitude of a bored and vacant-minded man--but as he sat his brain was focussed on the clicking.
When we were first in London, he was the immortal tenant of one room and a recess, and with manners indolently pensive.
He sits indolently with his head on his breast, taking sight through his eyebrows till he finds his cue to break in, and as far as our observation goes, nobody was ever willing to interrupt him.
The girl indolently disengaged herself from the counter and Elijah Curtis's transfer, and brought the candle to her father.
The Pretender wheeled suddenly on the calm gentleman sitting indolently in his chair.
Finally he stretched himself indolentlyon a carpet of pine needles at the brink of a drop to the valley.
The same farmer sat as indolently now as then, on the top step.
Their motion was so indolently graceful that I could not help gazing at them.
It was now more pleasing to be assured that, even in the midst of plenty, they did not indolently give themselves up to repose, but were willing to take advantage of every favorable opportunity of increasing their store.
Josephine Franklin and her mother were languidly partaking of a late breakfast, and indolentlydiscussing the merits of the Italian opera, to which they had both been on the preceding night.
Swaying indolently she went her way, with drooping eyes and listless steps, seeing no one, lost in the mysterious dreams which brought a sensuous smile to her heavy lips.
Above his head long streamers of delicate Spanish moss waved indolently from the branches of a cypress tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indolently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deliberately; easily; gently; haltingly; leisurely; moderately; reluctantly; slow; slowly
