He gave a little groan and his hands fell slackly from her.
The grip of the big hillman grew lax, and as the man collapsed, his fingers slid slackly down the thighs of the officer.
As soon as Ernestine had mounted the seat the slackly held gathering showed signs of cohesion.
The single thread, slackly twisted, gives a very desirable elasticity to the fabric, because the wool fibre is not too closely bound or packed.
If it is of home manufacture, it may be spun as loosely or slackly as possible, dyed and woven without doubling, which will be seen to be an economy of labor.
There was nobody to observe him, so he bent under the strain, riding slackly in his weariness, with all the vigour gone out of him.
His face was worn and weary, and he stood slackly with all the springy suppleness apparently gone out of him.
They stopped for a few minutes at the foot of a crag, and then Lawrence, who had been sitting rather slackly on a log, got up with a shiver.
His shoulders were bent, his clothes hung slackly on his powerful frame, and Featherstone thought his hair had grown whiter since he saw him last.
Her thin hands went together on her breast and then fell slackly to her sides.
She lifted his arms and laid them about her, but they fell slackly away.
He did not know how long he continued, but he was disturbed by a movement of the water and saw Clay swaying slackly to and fro.
Then he sprang to the pilot-house, and, looking in through the open door, saw the quartermaster leaning slackly on the small brass wheel.
That a king's children should be so convey'd, So slackly guarded, and the search so slow That could not trace them!
They looked more like brigands than soldiers, and it was hard to imagine they had been drilled, but while their attitudes were slackly negligent, their faces were resolute.
Miguel pushed her off, and with oars splashing slackly she moved downstream.
She moved away both from him and Miss Chressham; she sank on to the stool in front of the spinet, and her hands fell slackly into her lap.
Could we go back throughout history intelligently, no doubt we should find that it came always with the hour when the flower of civilization had blown to its full, and when its petals were but slackly held together.
Alexander moreover ordered all teachers and preachers to abstain from reviling the Mendicants and to retract the abuse they had uttered under pain of loss of preferment--a command which was but slackly obeyed.
In the rest of Italy Clement's bull of 1307, addressed to the archbishops and ordering an inquest, seems to have been somewhat slackly obeyed.
Many noble youths embraced their cause and joined them in their castles, while the people obeyed slackly the order to take up arms against them.
Along the oak settle which was drawn up close to the fire lay Delia with her head motionless on a pile of brilliant cushions and her hands slackly clasped on her bosom.
The Master of Stair was leaning back with his head uplifted against the stiff black back of his chair, his hands lay slackly on the arms and his eyes were set and vacant: “Sir John,” said the secretary timidly.
The watch upon their ports was slackly kept and ships constantly left them.
Both fleets were reinforced; for the watch on Brest was slackly kept and six ships were allowed to leave the port and sail to Toulon.
Thin mist drifted about the house Don Felix had occupied, and Wyndhams' new agent leaned forward slackly with his arm on the table.
He was exhausted by physical effort and anxious watching, and when Rupert replaced the bandage on his comrade's face he leaned back slackly on the locker seat.
Her engines throbbed slackly as she steamed in with the tide, past the dark shapes of anchored vessels.
The Krooboys panted in the shade of the shaking sails, and Marston groaned and swore when he took his glasses and slackly climbed the rigging.
He shook hands slackly with her, placed a chair for her in one of the bays of a sort of =E= that was lined with books of reference, and she listened to his soft, dispirited voice and to the clicking of typewriters in an adjoining room.
Vacations lose their value when you study as slackly as Louie did.
If jobs were slackly done, acquiescence was easier than correction.
The agreement to accept no British imports was but slackly kept, in spite of protests from South Carolina and elsewhere.
In their original form, in 1661, they had involved no serious injury to the colonies, and had, moreover, been so slackly enforced that they were almost a dead letter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slackly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
