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Example sentences for "slouchy"

Lexicographically close words:
slotted; slotting; slouch; slouched; slouching; slough; sloughed; sloughing; sloughs; sloughy
  1. Then appeared, lurking by the roadside, a slouchy youth, on whom our tragic hero sprang like a tiger, threw him down, and stood panting over him with a gesture as if to stab.

  2. He was a dull, mumbling, slouchy lad, who sunk his voice to an awed whisper as we passed the escutcheon-carved palace of a count.

  3. I think he is the soul of the universe, equally cognizant and disregardful of every living thing, to whom I am not more dear than the bare-armed slouchy woman at the neighboring door.

  4. A slouchy woman sits at the door of a filthy cottage, counting some dirty linen and waving her bare arm at some passing soldiers.

  5. Harriet, the slouchy maid, was not in evidence, so I opened the street door for myself.

  6. He was attired in the usual fashion among the Indians, his dress looking slouchy and untidy.

  7. The defiant attitude and manner, which were a challenge of themselves, vanished: the shoulders drooped forward: the step became slouchy and uncertain, and the poor fellow looked as if about to sink to the ground in a final collapse.

  8. Her mongrel pup came trotting along the space in his sidelong fashion and lay down with his nose against her slouchy moccasins, thereby proving his bravery, so far as any offense against his olfactories was concerned.

  9. I've forgot," replied the boy in the slouchy speech and intonation of the hills.

  10. Yet he remained master of himself, and went on sitting the saddle in the slouchy attitude that he had adopted when he knew himself to be observed.

  11. He rode in a slouchy manner, and he transferred the pistols from his belt to the large inside pockets of his new coat.

  12. And your lodger, is he an ugly, slouchy creature--with hooked nose, bleary eyes and shaggy yellow hair?

  13. He described him well enough just now; thin and slouchy in his ways.

  14. He was small and wiry, slouchy of attire, and armed to the teeth, and he bestrode a fine bay horse.

  15. Duane looked him over, from dusty, worn-out boots to his slouchy sombrero.

  16. Joshua braced up for the home stretch and began to take long slouchy strides, as if he were on the old parade ground again.

  17. The rather slouchy maid of all work opened the door.

  18. She was looking at the slouchy slippers I still wore and at the bed, yet undone, since I had told the landlady she might as well have it attended to after my departure.

  19. The men had often been slouchy and unkempt.

  20. His short legs scarce reached below old Battle's saddle girth; and, in addition to the slouchy suit of Uxbridge satinet, he wore a shabby white hat, very like that worn by Philosopher Greeley on election days.

  21. The weather was quite cold, and his peculiar dress, topped with a slouchy broad-brimmed hat, made something of a sensation.

  22. Take a raw recruit; he stoops, he walks in a shuffling, slouchy manner; he is painfully awkward.

  23. But they both agree that he was a dreadful, rough-looking creature who carried a big club and had a queer slouchy walk.

  24. And these lame legs of mine would account for that slouchy walk they told you about.

  25. He was a heavy-set, slouchy man in jeans, broad-shouldered and bowlegged.

  26. The one farthest from the door was a heavy-set, unwieldy man in jeans, slouchy as to dress and bearing.

  27. A slouchy garb is both effect and cause of a slouchy mind.

  28. He was wearing a similar hat and a frock-coat, himself, and the decorated post took on a bizarre and slouchy resemblance to its decorator.

  29. Physically she was a normally developed young woman of distinctly good strength, but slouchy attitude.

  30. On examination we found a very well nourished and well developed young woman of slouchy attitude and normal expression.


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