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Example sentences for "slackers"

Lexicographically close words:
slacken; slackened; slackening; slackens; slacker; slacking; slackly; slackness; slacks; slag
  1. I hear of but few if any slackers among them, while thousands of slackers of other races are being rounded up by the police in various cities throughout the country.

  2. The veriest slackers paid attention to lessons that morning, and even Raymonde for once did not receive an order mark.

  3. They went back to school feeling highly patriotic, and burning to boast of their experiences to those slackers who had chosen the parental roof for their holidays.

  4. These were carried up the beach to trucks on a line connected with the supply depĂ´ts, and if you wished to see a busy scene where slackers had no place the Belah beach gave it you.

  5. There was no room for slackers in the Army, and the value of each truck was so high that it could not be left standing idle for an hour.

  6. It's the cowards and the quitters and the slackers and dodgers that need this war more than the patriotic ones who are willing to buckle on and go!

  7. That's what we're making of them--slackers for life.

  8. An hour later their craft will be as thick as money-bugs on the water, and the joys of the slackers will be at height.

  9. Those fellows beyond who have tied up three deep to the bank are waiting to see us get ducked; but it is just as easy to shoot the lasher as to upset in it; and with that swarm of slackers watching, it makes a difference which you do.

  10. The slackers you see tied up to the bank on both sides of the Char are always here after luncheon.

  11. We should be willing to fight, to give the rights and privileges of democracy to other people, and our American boys are not slackers who let some one else do their work.

  12. No wonder these damned slackers seem cheap compared to him.

  13. But I'll get a kick out of looking on--watching these swell slackers with the girls we fought for.

  14. And of all the vile and stark profanity which the war gave birth to on the lips of miserable and maimed soldiers, that flung on the slackers was the worst.

  15. Son, I like you and Blair as well as I hate these slackers Swann and Mackay, and their crowd.

  16. Many a doughboy whose wife or mother was in need at home because of the rapidly mounting prices put up by the slackers in the shops and the slackers in the marts of trade, now saw his little pay check shrink up in exchange value.

  17. Germany is free from strikers, slackers and such-like anti-social types.

  18. One cannot read even Mr. Lloyd George's summary narrative of the preposterous doings of British slackers without wondering whether salvation is still possible.

  19. During luncheon time of the last day there had been some fear expressed among certain of the delegates that the loyal foreign-born element in the United States might not thoroughly understand the Alien Slackers Resolution.

  20. And there were traitors and profiteers and slackers of every sort.

  21. But what gets me, is the way some of those fellows who were everything but slackers in France act, now that they are back home.

  22. She can go on with her dinners and card parties and balls and country club affairs with the silk-hatted slackers of her set, just the same as if nothing had happened.

  23. And some of the worst cowards and shirkers and slackers that ever lived belonged to our ancient and noble order of the horny-handed sons of toil, that Jake Vodell orates about.

  24. I can't bear the sight of the little slackers any longer.

  25. If your French prose is full of howlers, you are told that slackers aren't wanted in the trenches.

  26. Betty rubbed in her indispensable work at the Red Cross Hospital with comments on those slackers who shirked giving their fair share of help.

  27. I heard one of the slackers speak of that moving stuff as 'floating batteries,'" Ted added.

  28. Ted and Hubert laughed heartily, vastly amused, and the latter said: "Don't you think all slackers are as ready as that?

  29. The three slackers turned, all attention, and Ted described what he had seen.

  30. After each had received the most expert attention the sympathetic and admiring camp of slackers was capable of, it was merely a matter of keeping still temporarily in order to save himself from pain.

  31. But no response came from the four slackers who, standing in their tracks, watched the departing "deserters" with hostile eyes.

  32. Ted looked around at the sober-faced slackers and their eyes fell before him.

  33. Then followed a tramp of about two miles to the point of the island where the slackers had left their bateau.

  34. I liked your spunk, Ted, and I thought the way you talked to the slackers was fine; but I knew it would never do any good, and I thought it was foolish for us not to run away at the first chance.

  35. This was at breakfast, after the slackers had scattered.

  36. And at supper he fed them with Billy at the cook-camp fire about forty feet apart from the fire around which the slackers ate and lounged.

  37. He remembered to have heard one of the slackers say that the tail of a panther twitched in that nervous way when the beast was crouching for a spring.

  38. Slackers must turn sloggers, for the credit of St. Cyprian's," declared Kitty.

  39. I'll go at eleven and harangue some of those slackers in VB.

  40. No one who has been in the coal regions or in the great mines of the Rocky Mountains but realizes that there are an enormous number of allied slackers in this country.

  41. No one wants to belong to a college which can do nothing but howl at night, since the greatest slackers in the 'Varsity howl the loudest.

  42. My father has suddenly got very sick with me, and says I have got to read or go down altogether; besides I am tired of doing nothing, and there are enough slackers in the college without me.

  43. So much for the "slackers in khaki" which one extra emphatic writer (himself not in khaki, although younger than several of the orderlies here) professed to discover in the R.

  44. Not all the slackers dodge the work Of service where the cannon lurk, Not all the slackers on life's stage Are boys of military age.

  45. The worst of slackers is the man Who will not help whene'er he can, But plays the idle rover, And tells to all beset with doubt There's naught to be alarmed about, The storm will soon be over.

  46. Stay and rest under the shade of this blessed tree, while I go and get the proper measure due to your account from the unwilling labors of those slackers over yonder.

  47. Master Rababull had never deliberately mistreated either of them, although he was known to deal harshly enough with rightly deserving wrongdoers or habitual slackers if they pushed their luck too far.

  48. It's the slackers who couldn't or wouldn't see their duty men should feel sorry for!

  49. All who were not slackers were doing their part-- every one.

  50. While we can be trusted, I hope not to pick lemons, slackers and shirkers, still it makes our choice surer to have it approved by the gang.

  51. The fault with you girls is you've been slackers about practicing.

  52. The charming slackers make the most congenial mates.

  53. I have no use for slackers who owe everything to others.

  54. How can we blame the slackers who, for want of confidence, refused to throw in their lot with what seems to them a wild-goose chase--until fetched?

  55. We are most of us slackers at the bottom, and need the discipline of a timetable to keep us on the move.

  56. We're slackers and slouchers and the Germans are too many for us.


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