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Example sentences for "slouch"

Lexicographically close words:
slothfulness; sloths; slots; slotted; slotting; slouched; slouching; slouchy; slough; sloughed
  1. Bosinney, who wore a slouch hat, stopped in front of him, spun around, and rushed back towards the carriage he had just left.

  2. The person was adequately, if queerly dressed; a great big tall man, wearing a grey suit and a slouch hat.

  3. A tall, excitable man was coming towards her, waving a slouch hat.

  4. Dyke threw his slouch hat and an Inverness cape to the floor, stood with his hair absurdly ruffled; then sank upon the amber satin sofa.

  5. He wore a wide-brimmed, slouch hat, drawn well down.

  6. You and Alan both slouch abominably, and I cannot think why boys always walk on one side of their boots.

  7. The big man plumped himself down into a protesting chair, and took off his slouch hat.

  8. He was dressed in a slouch hat, a flannel shirt, a wrinkled old business suit and mud-splashed, laced half-boots.

  9. I bought then white trousers, a crimean shirt, a big slouch hat, and a red belt, and put all on at once.

  10. Still, I had a great doubt in my mind whether it would not be the more correct thing to dress myself in my Queensland clothes--that is, the slouch hat and the moleskins.

  11. In a pathetic attempt to spruce up, he knotted the red bandanna around his neck and pinched Salzar's slouch hat into a peak.

  12. Quintana made her an elaborate and ironical bow, slouch hat in hand; another masked man took her rifle.

  13. Well, you WOULD be a nice old slouch of a hermit.

  14. Some fern-cutters in shirt-sleeves and slouch hats were already at work, cutting with rhythmic precision, calling to one another, and whistling tunefully.

  15. He locked the suit of overalls and the slouch hat safely in his bag.

  16. In the night he got rid of the canvas suit and slouch hat.

  17. He therefore shaved, and dressed neatly and carefully; packed his valise with the bowler hat in it, turned up the brim of the common slouch hat and wore it jauntily.

  18. On these the captain laid the body of the rescued man, the slouch hat still clinging to his head.

  19. That feller in the slouch hat is Bart Holt!

  20. At the fall of the line the man in the slouch hat was seen to edge himself forward in an attempt to catch it.

  21. On one fragment--a splintered mast--crouched the man with the slouch hat; to the other clung the two sailors.

  22. The stranger was a tall, thin individual, dressed in an old-fashioned suit of rusty black and with a big slouch hat pulled well down over his head.

  23. At the same time they saw a tall man wearing a slouch hat hurrying off in the opposite direction.

  24. Almost every man wore a red shirt, a slouch hat, a repeating pistol, and a bowie-knife; and most of them began at once to grow beards.

  25. Well, at least I'm no slouch at looking after my own interests--and yours, Shirley.

  26. I can do a hundred yards in ten seconds; I'm no slouch of a swimmer; and at Princeton they say I made football history.

  27. It is possible that he found Mayor Poundstone, who was adorned with a white string tie, a soft slouch hat, a Prince Albert coat, and horseshoe cut vest, mildly amusing.

  28. His chin was in both hands, the brim of his slouch hat was curved crescent-wise over his forehead, and his eyes were on the sweeping bend of the river below him.

  29. With one heave of his mighty chest old Judd took off his slouch hat, pressed one big hand to the back of his head and, despite that blazing appeal, kept it there.

  30. I will, dad," she said, and tenderly she watched his great figure slouch out of sight.

  31. Sandy removed his slouch hat, blushed behind his beard at the new dignity, and said: "Bully for you!

  32. At last, looking out from under his great slouch hat, he saw the top in the center of a little knot of men holding up his hand and counting his fingers.

  33. Under his slouch hat left and right, he glanced and the old flag caught his sight.

  34. Conscience was standing in the door--and he feared that even the slouch of his shoulders, seen from behind, might have been dangerously revealing.

  35. He came with John Harding, and as he entered the room, he took his pipe from his mouth, jerked his slouch hat from his head, and gave a queer little duck in lieu of a bow.

  36. The slouch hat was down over his ears, as a heavy wind was tearing across the high landing.

  37. His big slouch hat even was cocked jauntily over the bed-post.

  38. He disappeared around the corner of the porch and the major strode into the hall, threw his gray slouch hat on the table, and sat down.

  39. He went to his trunk and fished out a soft shirt on which he knotted a loose tie, exchanged his Panama for a slouch hat, and whistling the barcarole from Tales of Hoffmann, went gaily out.

  40. Shaggy white eyebrows matched the fringe of white hair that sprouted from under the sides and back of the slouch hat.

  41. He wore a battered black slouch hat which long ago had given up the pretense of holding any particular shape.

  42. He wore a wide-brimmed slouch hat, pulled well over his eyes.

  43. Whitmore selected an old, dilapidated suit, a worn coat, an old slouch hat, and a pair of heavy shoes, and almost caused the beaming merchant to die of heart failure by paying the first price demanded of him.

  44. When he had pulled the battered slouch hat well down on his forehead, he surveyed himself in the glass.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slouch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amble; barge; blockhead; boor; bum; bundle; bungler; cave; clod; clot; clown; clump; crawl; creep; dawdle; decline; dolt; drag; droop; flop; flounce; foot; founder; gait; gallop; gawk; halt; hitch; hobble; hop; idle; idleness; idler; indolence; jolt; jump; laggard; lapse; laze; laziness; lazy; limp; loaf; loafer; loiter; loiterer; loll; lounge; lounger; lour; lout; lower; lubber; lumber; lunge; lurch; mince; mooch; moon; mope; pace; paddle; peg; plod; plop; plump; prance; rack; roll; sag; saunter; scuffle; scuttle; settle; shamble; shuffle; sidle; sink; sit; skip; slink; slither; sloth; slouch; slowness; slug; sluggard; sluggishness; slump; sprawl; stagger; stalk; stamp; stand; step; stomp; stoop; straddle; straggle; stride; stroll; strut; stump; submerge; subside; swag; swagger; swing; toddle; totter; tread; trifler; trip; trot; trudge; velocity; waddle; walk; wiggle; wobble; yokel