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Example sentences for "lazily"

Lexicographically close words:
lazars; laze; lazie; lazier; laziest; laziness; lazo; lazos; lazuli; lazy
  1. The movement of the horse no longer made her ill, since she did not have to sit upright; she was only a little dizzy at times, as if from the rocking of a swing, and lazily comfortable with that strong arm and shoulder for support.

  2. A crow flapped lazily across the foreground and perched like a blot of fresh-spilled ink on the top of a dead cottonwood and cawed raucous greeting to the spring.

  3. He wanted to be left alone to day-dream and watch the clouds trail lazily across to meet the hills; and there was an embryonic poem forming, phrase by phrase, in his mind.

  4. As they stood, and with pleased eyes gazed upon the waterfall, they saw near the bank an otter lazily making ready to eat a salmon which he had caught.

  5. There were few people about at the stations, it almost seemed as if they were too lazily content to wish to travel; none of the bustle and stir that Margaret had noticed in her two journeys on the London and North-Western line.

  6. All at once, as he looked lazily along the lazy files of ice, his eyes caught a black object drifting on a fragment in a wide way of open water opposite Skerrett's Point, a mile distant.

  7. The dinner-hour had passed, and the passengers were lolling about on the long quarter-deck, talking lazily after the manner of men and women who have little to say and much time wherein to say it.

  8. The smoke rose lazily in the ambient air, and he saw a figure all fluttering rags and flying turban running down the slope away from him.

  9. Marjorie Dean, beckoning with one round, dripping arm to the girl on the sands, while with the other she kept herself lazily afloat.

  10. The black blood flowed lazily from his wounds--the jaguar crept forwards, and purred as he licked it up.

  11. The smoke was curling lazily over the heads of the party of men in the road, while the huge hulk of a grizzly was disappearing in the distance.

  12. Suddenly he was vexatiously conscious of hearing his name lazily called, and looking up found that he was on the outskirts of the town, and interrogated by two horsemen.

  13. Only in speech, sir," he replied, lazily swinging one huge leg over the pommel of his saddle.

  14. Providentially steam was up, slowly the engines started, the screw revolved, and just as the steamer moved lazily out into the harbor, the enraged mob swept to the very edge of the wharf.

  15. A few Arabs and Somalis were sitting around lazily on the sand, and troops of the Bombay Infantry were seen moving about the streets.

  16. He lay on the surface of the water filling his lungs again and again, and gazing up at the stars above the gray height of the wall against whose grim base the swell lazily washed.

  17. The thin smoke of a thousand fires rose lazily in the quiet The soldiers ceased to recount their escapes in the dreadful breach and stretched themselves on the ground.

  18. The jeers of the Persians died away and their banners stirred lazily in the light air.

  19. She declared that the pain in her head had left her, and, turning lazily on her side, she studied her surroundings.

  20. A few thin vapours floated lazily through the blue arch, the hue of which was deliciously mellowed by the golden light of the sun.

  21. Lolling lazily at her ease among the silken cushions in her jakfi, she would chat with charming frankness through the night, as in the moonlight we plodded steadily onward guided by one of the slaves to whom the route was familiar.

  22. The air was sultry, the Arabs lay stretched on the benches in the kahouas, or, squatting lazily on the mats outside, were oblivious to their surroundings.

  23. Presently I came across the Arab who had brought the sad news from his Sheikh, and who, after his meal was now squatting under a shady arcade lazily smoking.

  24. Bright-eyed women with faces of flawless beauty were half-sitting, half reclining on their luxurious divans, lazily smoking cigarettes, or allowing themselves to be slowly fanned by their slaves.

  25. The great steel door in the guard-room swung open; the guard sitting lazily in a worn chair at the double inner gates threw back the lever, and the receiving guard and Archie entered the yard.

  26. The caddie took up the bag and went lazily away, stopping to take several practice swings with one of Marriott's drivers.

  27. The boat cleared the sand, lazily wheeled in the eddying water, and suddenly seemed caught by some powerful gliding force.

  28. Presbrey was weighing bags of wool on a scale, and when she called he lazily turned, as if to wonder at her eagerness.

  29. How near they were to that volcano's rim they little dreamed as they sauntered lazily down to the bridge and watched the men at work.

  30. His back was toward them at the moment, but even while they gazed, he lazily rose and turned around, so that they caught a full view of his face.

  31. He folded the paper over, and sprawled himself out lazily on his seat--but if the editorial in question was on the sheet before him, he did not see it.

  32. With the toe of his boot he lazily pushed a chair out from the wall.

  33. Once the Hawk's eyes lazily surveyed the lobby; thereafter they appeared to be intent on what was passing in the street.

  34. Peter, lazily thrusting at the silence between them.

  35. Stuart let drop the mainsheet; it rattled lazily along its blocks, and was still.

  36. On the bay about us, fishing boats were lazily bobbing up and down; in some, old bearded fishermen with broad hats, smoking clay and corncob pipes, were drying their seines.

  37. Ten huge animals were lazily stretched out in the warm sun.

  38. Some were asleep, others basked in the sun with heads turning lazily from side to side.

  39. A pity we’re not playing it then,” Mr. Sharper lazily rejoined.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lazily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.