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How to use slackly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word slackly? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He did not, however, give up other studies but worked only slackly on them.
After fumbling a moment he unlatched the door and it swung slackly open, the quill between the bars following it out.
Both arms rested slackly at her sides, eyes widened, and she could just barely make out the outline of her assailant.
An accompanying consideration was that Asian and African forms of literature may be only slackly comparable to those in the West.
He asked me with an impolite, almost impatient lilt, as he slackly sat himself upon a tree-stump, violin in hand, hand upon knee.
History meant to be puffed up with nationalist pride hangs slackly.
His linen shirt and suspenders hung slackly on his frame, and his sunken cheeks gave him the look of a hardscrabble farmer from a century ago.
Butzer's peculiar characters with their huge black holes instead of eyes, mouths agape and ready to scream, slackly hanging hands and feet, emerge through thick brush strokes and numerous layers of colour.
Never run the cable slackly, uncovered or across the medium!
Unfortunately, in the director Jo Bonney's slackly acted production, the contents don't prove as fascinating to us today as we had reason to hope.
Today's worst programmes should be measured not against the best products of yesteryear but the worst: so slackly plotted, vapid and slow-moving that they are now almost unwatchable.
He scraped the bigger patches of algae from the banner with the back of his knife, then doubled the fishing line and fed it slackly through an eyelet and brought it back, tying it to the cleat where he clipped his seat.
Examples from Classical Literature
The dog-eared Latin grammar and arithmetic primer were odious to him, 289 and he learned but slackly.
The watch upon their ports was slackly kept and ships constantly left them.
The slackly gathered reins were held in the left hand, while from the right wrist dangled a thick stock whip.
A slackly rolled turban covered half his forehead, and he leaned with his back against a cottonwood scowling upon his judge.
My chief anxiety is lest the Academy-product-sale-Commission of the State carry on its office-trade too slackly.
In any case, these judgments were but slackly enforced, even in those instances where enforcement was within Edward's power.
The Governor and Cardinal, with their forces, kept Edinburgh, for they were slackly pursued.
As soon as Ernestine had mounted the seat the slackly held gathering showed signs of cohesion.
Vacations lose their value when you study as slackly as Louie did.
Throw the thread across to the left and hold it slackly under the thumb.
Archer's black brocade, while Miss Archer's brown and purple poplins hung, as the years went on, more and more slackly on her virgin frame.
Bryn Halliwell was forced into a good stop to deny Scott Chaplain at the start of the second period after Stevenson had slackly given away possession.
Slackly lying back in her armchair, she watched the little flames beginning to creep among the coals indifferently, as if they, too, were very distant and indifferent.
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