sluggard

Example Sentences

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With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 6, 2016

I've never been a sluggard, and yet I've never felt that I've done one twentieth of what I was capable of doing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013

A slugger but no sluggard, the old publisher stepped smartly to the plate, smacked the Roosevelt pitch straight back at the box.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Make him move over!" they shout as she bears down on a 55-m.p.h. sluggard in the fast lane.

From Time Magazine Archive

They glowed and ruffled until the sluggard forsook his couch and, creeping over the chilly floor, flung them back into a day-long folded tranquillity.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton