Adjective : a slack rope. ,slack proofreading. ,He is slack in answering letters. ,the slack season in an industry. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a sudden slack in output. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He slacked the most important part. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Business is slacking up. From Dictionary.com.
Just rode on, sitting slackly on the swaying horse. From Wordnik.com. [Echo Burning]
Keisha could only sit slackly in her saddle and stare. From Wordnik.com. [Elephant in the City] Reference
With these, as we now slackly say, he could “identify.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Side of Dickens] Reference
He reached the still figure where it lay slackly, face down. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
Mrs. Durrant let the reins fall slackly, and leant backwards. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
His mouth opened slackly and his fingers twitched on his reins. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
The big drum slowly, slackly exploded its note from the church-tower. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Ian Malcolm lay on his back, his skin gray-white, mouth slackly open. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
King Stephen was crowned, and held, however slackly, most of England. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
The guard stared slackly then retreated at Aboshan's angry expression. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
Throw the thread across to the left and hold it slackly under the thumb. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
The great mouth hung slackly open, and its long, floppy tongue protruded. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinslayer Wars]
The short difficult breaths passed audibly through her slackly open mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
The guard stared slackly then retreated at Aboshan's angry expression. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
The mouth inside the bubble fell slackly; then Bowman pulled himself together. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
His head sagged, chin against his chest, eyes closed, mouth hung slackly open. From Wordnik.com. [The Robin And The Kestrel]
He had been writing slackly, and with intervals of abstraction, since the shots. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
He realized he was sitting there alone at the table with his mouth slackly open. From Wordnik.com. [Red Dog]
Once-powerful muscles hung slackly from old bones like slabs of exfoliating shale. From Wordnik.com. [Snakes Eyes]
The plantation, always slackly managed, saw itself now on the high road to destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
Through my binoculars the slackly wound body looked as full and fat as a python's coils. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
It was far less blaspemous and far more Generation X slackly irreverent than anything else. From Wordnik.com. ["A 'Virtuous vanilla' lip balm and a 'Get Tight with Christ' hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women."] Reference
Her eyes were still indomitable, but her mouth hung open slackly and her color was startling. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
There's no easy answer to this, European legislation being drafted pretty slackly on the whole. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Billy's eyes caught a indefinite blur of VW in his rearview mirror and his mouth gaped slackly. From Wordnik.com. [Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession] Reference
Till then I reckoned I would be slackly guarded, for they would look on me as safe in the net. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
The door heaved open then, and she appeared in it; then she saw him, and her jaw dropped open slackly. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
The thick under-lip hung slackly, quivering from time to time in the convulsive tremors of desire that ran over him. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Suddenly she felt intensely old, and she collapsed from her kneeling attitude on to her heels and sat there slackly. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
“Do what she says,/mon ami/,” he growled, and the boy backed up, his bass hanging slackly from the strap over his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
He was tall and must have once been quite heavily built; now his white tunic hung slackly from a stringy neck and bony shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
His chin trembled, his lips fell apart slackly; he lowered his eyes after an instant's contact with the staunch gaze of his brother. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Tightened and tuned the yellowed strings, hung slackly. From Wordnik.com. [Young Adventure, a Book of Poems] Reference
On the last bench of all Hilary came on the little model, seated slackly by herself. From Wordnik.com. [Fraternity] Reference
As soon as Ernestine had mounted the seat the slackly held gathering showed signs of cohesion. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
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