How To Use Lazily In A Sentence

Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
In front of them, the mist parted to reveal a river, moving lazily along its course.
She swung it lazily and with ease, and roped the wild mustang.
Bob , who had no intention of working, leaned lazily on his spade.
The Siamese cat purred and lazily walked towards the kitchen.

She nodded, her fingers still strumming lazily.
They were linked by a slack, heavy, silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.
His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers.
She got out of the shower lazily, and had a sharp feeling in her stomach that something would happen today.
Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children. Dragons in the garden
I lazily looked it over until I found an ice cream parlor.
The little waves of the river glittered and shone and rolled lazily down upon the channel, or curled up in rippling eddies towards the shore. The Hills of the Shatemuc
With his trademark single flaxen plait snaking lazily down his jumper, Britain's leading organic gardener certainly appears to practise what he preaches.
The pony merely rolled an eye to look up at him and continued cropping the grass lazily.
I've been lazily chucking in ordinary butter up until now, but I give the clarified stuff a try, and even strain it in, in obedience to Michel Roux Jr's particularly pernickety method. How to make perfect hollandaise sauce
Both of her arms crossed each other across her chest, the daggers she held lay lazily over her shoulders on each side.
At other tables, several pasty-faced types in puffed-out shirts lazily gorged themselves on cruisers' cuisine.
Bob , who have no intention of work, lean lazily on his spade.
They continued to lazily watch Stine, exchanging cracks and small jokes about the dog.
Palm trees swayed lazily in the soft breeze.
Jake accepted the pole from Abby, and the two quietly watched the whitecaps in the bay, while the clouds lazily drifted overhead.
Ark "-- by which complimentary title the capacious boat devoted to the use of the juniors of the house was known -- lazily up on the tide towards The Willoughby Captains
They watched as white smoke drifted lazily upward in the humid tropic air.
Yet all such speed was invisible, as the wind vanishes when a swift xebec scuds before a tempest on the Ocean of Urth. We drifted so lazily that if I had not had faith in Apheta and the Hierarchs, I would have feared we would never reach the ship at all and be lost forever in that endless night. The Urth of the New Sun
Establishments sell grass openly and the customers (Vietnamese rarely smoke) roll and lazily smoke reefers like a cigarette.
It came from one direction and all directions; something was happening back in the moveless, dripping jungle under the lazily eddying blanket of fog. "The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 1
The only thing cheekier would be to take one of the most successful podcasts of all time and then lazily -- yes lazily, you heard me right, Mr. Gervais -- repurpose it into an animated series. Michael Giltz: DVDs: "Archer" -- The Funniest Sitcom Around
_souteneur_, although from the respectable point of view he has put himself into a low-down moral position, is, after all, not so very unlike those parasitic wives who, on a higher social level, live lazily on their husbands 'professional earnings, and sometimes give much less than the _souteneur_ in return. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
On the cashew tree outside the bedroom window, ‘the bell-shaped yellow fruits hung lazily, drawing buzzing bees that bumped against my window's netting.’
She awoke with her body lazily relaxed, only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night.
It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
They came to rest on a buckskin gelding lazily chewing on hay.
When the race began, the crowd contented itself by lazily torturing his teammates, and, by early appearances, they were in rare form.
In old days -- in Captain Cai's young days -- it ran up for half a mile or more to an embanked mill-pool and a mill-wheel lazily turning: and Rilla Farm had in those days been Rilla Mill, with a farmstead attached as the miller's _parergon_. Hocken and Hunken
Trailing an article that uses the term accurately ( "the first world champion from outside the British Isles in 30 years") with an innacurate statement on the front page of the website ( "first foreigner to win world title since 1980") shows how it can be easy to lazily conflate the geographical with the political while making poor Ken Doherty a subject of the British crown. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
These themes are underpinned by unquestioned assumptions about the dangers of modern life, lazily repeated like a mantra through much of the media.
The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening. Yama: the pit
Specialized neural machinery takes care of the heavy lifting while our conscious minds sit lazily at the controls.
It is truly terrible: leadenly paced, datedly filmed, implausibly plotted and lazily acted. Times, Sunday Times
A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
Fairfax queried lazily, half-absorbed in curling smoke-spirals upward in the quiet air. IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH
There are also sights that feel entirely new: a sloth swimming lazily in a tropical blue sea, or young marine iguanas pursued by fearsome racer snakes. Times, Sunday Times
On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
The familiar sound of a bus engine grows louder, rising in pitch, as it approaches, only to drift lazily away.
It was a four-days 'hard march to the locality where Captain Buxton counted on finding his victims; and when on the fourth day, rather tired and not particularly enthusiastic, the command bivouacked along the banks of a mountain-torrent, a safe distance from the supposed location of the Indian stronghold, he sent forward his Apache Mojave allies to make a stealthy reconnoissance, feeling confident that soon after nightfall they would return with the intelligence that the enemy were lazily resting in their "rancheria," all unsuspicious of his approach, and that at daybreak he would pounce upon and annihilate them. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
A thin curl of smoke arose lazily from the cobin.
A cool crisp breeze blew lazily through the morning air.
At first it came down almost lazily, in huge, silent flakes which soon blanketed the frozen ground.
Goldfish were swimming lazily in a group just under the surface.
Paul sat up and stretched lazily while a soft chuckle escaped his lips.
The hurried yells of the seaman brought Blaine's head up, and induced his head to lazily drift upwards, towards a large raft that had been shucked out to the bow.
She sat on a branch, leaning her head against the trunk and laughing, her legs swinging lazily below her.
I watched the blue smoke drift lazily away on the still air
South-western zephyr, far from oceans here, whispers lazily of warm Gulf Stream sunfish.
I chuckled lightly as one of the lower balloons disengaged itself from the pole and lazily drifted upward, zigging and zagging on the warmish breeze.
But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall.
Master is a toothless old man, grey hair lazily draping over his broad shoulders.
South-western zephyr, far from oceans here, whispers lazily of warm Gulf Stream sunfish.
The cafes at either end of the street are sparsely populated, and the aproned man grilling wurst for the restaurant looks bored, lonely and cold, wisps of smoke wreathing lazily about his head.
Stretched out next to the sofa was Julie, leafing lazily through a magazine.
Lazily strummed blues to nervous flamenco in one short guitar solo.
The two men gazed at the tall column of smoke that climbed up lazily into the sky. Man of Honour
The lumbering shuttle lazily side slipped from port to starboard and back in futile attempts to shake off pursuit.
They must be fighting for their team, not wandering around the pitch lazily in the comfort zone. Times, Sunday Times
He shooed the young steer out of his way, and back, onto firmer ground, and then spun the loop of the rope lazily, letting it swing out in an arc and settle squarely over the cow's horns.
Lazily falling out of bed at eleven, it is strange to still be in complete darkness, and breakfast is a decidedly demotivating affair.
When she looked at the fire, it was blurred, and the smoke wreathed lazily; she stared intently at that smoke, pretending she could see each and every particle, that she was as small as they were.
Her leg hung over the arm rest of the couch, her head propped up lazily on an open palm.
It is often frivolous, vehement but mostly passionless, lazily deceitful or ill-informed and without political substance or influence.
A turtle lazily munched on the coral, oblivious and uncaring of my presence, or the flashes emanating from my camera.
Walk across some stepping stones over one of the streams as ornamental carp swim lazily past and you can marvel at the mist-covered mountains in the distance as you amble with your guide down to your accommodation.
The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion.
I shuffled to my feet, gathered my binder, and slung my backpack over one shoulder lazily.
And when this was done, she composedly ordered her pipe and threw herself lazily at length upon a pile of kincob cushions, her posture the more careless since she knew herself secure from observation; the garden being private to her use. The Bronze Bell
There was a handful of fluffy clouds floating lazily across the sky.
The Galaxy was high in the sky and its misty lens shape stretched lazily from horizon to horizon.
Really? and not one point of view is backed up with any substance; the snobbery about the orbit, for example, which is twice so lazily described as wonky, does not shed any light on mr long's objection to the idea or the execution. in fact re-reading this - out of sheer disbelief - i find no real content whatsoever. a terrible article, a terrible journalist. Evening Standard - Home
This classily produced and coolly graceful set features chunky Hot Club rhythm-guitar backings, lazily driving blues and subtly underplayed Hammond organ breaks.
She wore an oversized military coat; a brightly-colored knit argyle skirt which featured an inappropriate slit; black tights; and black doc martens, untied, so that the tongues of the shoes bent over lazily.
When he pulled the trigger his bullet thumped into the log and the crow flew lazily away unscathed.
And here he encountered more smoke, floating lazily upward in the warm sunshine beyond an outjut of rock. Smoke Bellew
He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awakening, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
In the middle of the night, Shotgun oozed up onto the foot of the bed and sprawled out lazily, pushing me off to the side, grum-pling his annoyance that I was taking up so much room; every so often, he farted his opinion of the spaghetti sauce, then after a while he began snoring, a wheezing-whistling noise. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
His mother would place a bowl of bright red cherries or shiny pistachios before us and we picked at the food as we chatted lazily.
His long, braided queue of glossy black hair bobbed lazily back and forth from shoulder to shoulder.
I walk lazily to the kitchen and start emptying the bags.
Popo rises behind it with snow on his peak and smoke lazily puffing from the caldera. On the road to becoming an authentic "poblano"
Then she turned lazily to look at the swell of muscle across his shoulders, and the breadth of his chest before it tapered in to his waist. THE WHITE DOVE
From the roof terrace of his three-storey whitewashed house, Ian Gibson watches golden eagles swooping lazily above.
Beneath the lush canopy of a huge tree near the University Office at Palayam, people are lazily browsing through books and magazines.
Many small typos and solecisms are lazily neglected.
My surprise was magnified when, instead of baiting me, Cale took one deliberate step forward and lazily asked, ‘So, are you going to eat lunch?’
Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
Sam was lazily tossing darts at the dartboard where they had pinned up a picture of a black shadow with a question mark beside it.
What I know is that the last time a lot of Americans lazily assumed a Republican candidate was bearably "moderate" because all the wise-looking pundits said he was, we got George W. Bush. January 6th, 2008
Claude smiled lazily and stretched, showing off her tiny ruby navel ring.
Lazily, I stood up, stretched my sleepy muscles and went upstairs.
Fantasia jumped lazily the first time, but cantered after the fence - a sure sign your horse jumped well.
Coral patches uprose everywhere from the turquoise depths, running the gamut of green from deepest jade to palest tourmaline, over which the sea filtered changing shades, creamed lazily, or burst into white fountains of sun-flashed spray. CHAPTER X
Rolling over in her bed, Kirby turned off her alarm clock and stretched lazily under her soft, thick, and warm comforter.
They passed a white cabana towards the beach and walked in the wet sand as the tide splashed lazily onto the ground.
The use of the word "ergonomic" to describe that lazily contrived squarish combination of fabrics with one inch unpadded shoulder cutting straps upsets me. Beaching and Moaning: Non-necessity is the Mother of Reinvention
Beyond my kitchen's open windows were scarlet geraniums on the balcony; a background of pines, hemlocks and larches in the garden; blue sky; bees buzzing lazily among the flowers.
For more casual fans this show was a reminder of how musically conservative and lazily derivative the grunge sound always was. Times, Sunday Times
`Can't wait to see you too,' I said as the letters scrolled lazily across the screen. RESCUING ROSE
The two men gazed at the tall column of smoke that climbed up lazily into the sky. Man of Honour
The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline.
Her eyes fell on some dried tumbleweed about a mile away, and she half-watched it roll lazily across the desert.
The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging easily on a disintegrating rivet, like a shutter on a haunted window. The Gunslinger
A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
‘Go back to bed,’ a tired Serilda yelled as she lazily tossed a pillow underhand at Kaatje.
They must be fighting for their team, not wandering around the pitch lazily in the comfort zone. Times, Sunday Times
A wood-pigeon is cooing lazily in the distance, and the gardens are ablaze with laburnums and rhododendrons.
Sighing lazily, she propped her elbows on the dinner table, digging her chin into her palms and breathing in slowly, exhaling heavily.
A radar rolls lazily around, ominous in the continuous certainty of its task.
Slowly its two tentacles appear, stretching almost lazily toward a shrimp until, with staggering speed, they shoot out to their full extent and grab the prey, pulling it back into a beaked mouth.
I lazily dropped the envelopes to my side on the couch and sat back with a hopeless sigh, staring directly at the droning television, not regarding anything happening on it.
One portrait shows a girl lazily blowing bubblegum, her face as round as her pink gum balloon.
They were lazily gliding through the water, or sleeping on the sandy bottom, and one shark was kind enough to show off its Jaws” dorsal fin cresting the surface of the water” impression. Underwater Adventures « Biodork
The two men gazed at the tall column of smoke that climbed up lazily into the sky. Man of Honour
The scene between Kimberly and Gaines, where she tries to attract attention by beating on the windows and he lazily turns the gun towards her, was a nice moment.
The _Mary_ -- for so Fritz now called the pinnace -- had been ten days at sea, the wind had died away, and for some time scarcely a zephyr had ruffled the surface of the water, the sails were lazily flapping against the mast, and but for the currents, the voyagers would have been almost stationary. Willis the Pilot
Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow
The fear of death stirs slowly within my chest cavity, like a stewpot lazily bubbling.
I strolled lazily along the beach, taking in the rolling waves and soft sand.
An eagle ray swims by lazily, escorted by two large remoras.
Well Haley was squaring up to Jared who stood lazily in front of her unperturbed by Haley's arguing, a smirk tugging at his lips at her fieriness.
His mother would place a bowl of bright red cherries or shiny pistachios before us and we picked at the food as we chatted lazily.
Hair floated lazily, all but detached from the blackened, rotted features. THE LAST RAVEN
He didn't seem to mind as I hung there lazily, my head lolling to the side.
‘No wonder he wasn't interested in Izzy,’ said Jacob, lazily, and took a slurp of his sundae.
Miles away a thunderhead had begun its afternoon romp and was growling lazily.
You can do this lazily, i.e. you either call some "recalculate" method after all transformations or set a GameDev.Net
He moved lazily towards me, his voice was wheezing.
The sand of the beach shimmers under the African sun, and the wavelets that lazily flop onto the shore are crystal clear.
He hung the bundle from an overhanging branch of a sycamore, where it dangled lazily at head height above the ground.
I woke in the morning to find the fire reduced to a thin trail of smoke, drifting lazily into the blue sky.
They were silent for a few minutes, strolling lazily down the sidewalk.
Wind turbines turn lazily in a waft of air, a frog croaks in a pond, a small white goat munches grass along the driveway and a waterwheel makes faint sloshing noises as it turns.
I wish I didn't have a phone extension in my bedroom, I think lazily.
I complained as I turned the T.V. off and walked lazily into the undersized area called the kitchen.
The sea itself rolled shorewards more silently and lazily than usual. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The use of the word "ergonomic" to describe that lazily contrived squarish combination of fabrics with one inch unpadded shoulder cutting straps upsets me. Beaching and Moaning: Non-necessity is the Mother of Reinvention
They cruise lazily but can burst into action when hunting their normal prey glassfish and sweepers.
This week the weather turned a corner and the looming summer season hit me straight in the face - and left me wishing for a summer vacation spent lazily lying on sandy beaches sipping drinks with orch ... Karen Leland: Ten Tips To A Terrific Staycation
She simply lay along the outer rim of the pool, letting her hand lazily drift through the water.
Lazily, Bren watched slumped backward into the cool, itching grass, hands entwined behind once bright hair that had been lightened by long hours under a summer sun.
Small clusters of puffy white clouds drifted over the horizon lazily.
One enduring memory of this wreck was that of a 4m thresher shark lazily cruising the 10m contour above us as we ascended.
As I lazily drove back along the Esplanade, I reflected on all the poor souls huddled around office coffee machines in the city making small talk.
There was a particular spot that I loved, on the bridge over the river, where ghostly whirls of mist drifted lazily over the water's surface.
My usual driving posture included one arm stretched almost lazily out to the wheel, the other resting on the gearshift.
In the opening scenes, her pool party guests lazily scrape their sun chairs along the deck making an incredible racket.
His exiguous chapter on slavery in American Notes was lazily annexed word-for-word from a famous abolitionist pamphlet of the day, and employed chiefly to discredit the whole American idea. The Dark Side of Dickens
If genes affect obesity primarily by boosting appetite, that means we cannot lazily blame DNA for an expanding waistline. Times, Sunday Times
Streaming contrails, the Thunderbolts lazily S-turned over the bomber formation - providing an umbrella for the lumbering Boeings.
The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline.
He lazily got up and stretched, his soft skin unmarked by bruises or scarring.
These themes are underpinned by unquestioned assumptions about the dangers of modern life, lazily repeated like a mantra through much of the media.
In the middle of the night, Shotgun oozed up onto the foot of the bed and sprawled out lazily, pushing me off to the side, grum-pling his annoyance that I was taking up so much room; every so often, he farted his opinion of the spaghetti sauce, then after a while he began snoring, a wheezing-whistling noise. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
The sun lazily climbed up the sky, using the clouds as ladders.
It's a warm evenin ', an' as the wizard glances over at Chet, he notices how that offishul is lazily fannin 'himse'f with a barn-door which he's done lifted off the hinges for that coolin' purpose. Wolfville Nights
The other bloke was handsome, tall, drink in hand and lazily people watching as I had been.
A frowsy whore with black straw sailor hat askew came glazily in the day along the quay towards Mr Bloom. Ulysses
I lazily looked it over until I found an ice cream parlor.
The spiral stairwell that circled lazily through each floor was merely inches from the inside of the closet.
Lazily jab that spoon at the uneaten remains of your milkless cereal! A Pair of Allowances
Snow drifted lazily about us, and we were both coated in the white powder.
‘She's cold as ice,’ Blake agreed lazily, the fleshy pad of his thumb skimming lightly over her lower lip.
The smells of breakfast wafted into the room, and Nora stretched out lazily, feeling cramped muscles groan in response.
There are simply two badly drilled holes and a lot of filler slapped lazily over the walls.
Lazily drifting at a high altitude, you wait until the sap investing his paycheck in the drunk blonde shuffles off to the restroom.
One of the students who did not leap to attention however, was sitting in the furthest corner at a paper-strewn desk, her head was lazily propped upon one slim lily-white hand which rested just beneath her pointy chin.
In one hypnotic turn, the performers hopped on skateboards and lazily circled the theater risers, becoming visible in half-moons as they rolled out in front of the audience and then disappearing again.
The Galaxy was high in the sky and its misty lens shape stretched lazily from horizon to horizon.
Sarah, who had been lounging lazily on a large rock, now opened a single golden eye.
When the runners "chaffed" him, nevertheless, it was in a mild way, and with manifest respect for his muscle, -- a sentiment in no way diminished when he suddenly clutched one of the least cautious among them by the nape of the neck, and held him out at arm's-length, for some seconds, over the drowny water that kept lazily licking at the green moss on the old stakes of the rickety pier. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
She could barely see the outline of a river winding lazily through the canyon.
In the distance, a vast flock of jackdaws funnels upwards from the trees and lazily circling, follows the fleeting sunlight over my head, uttering in unison their loud ‘chack-chack’ contact calls on the way to roost.
Everywhere were young soldiers in twos and threes keeping step, to be sure, but with eyes anywhere but to the front; groups lying on the ground, chewing blades of bluegrass, watching pretty girls pass, and lounging lazily; groups to one side, but by no means out of sight, throwing dice or playing "craps" -- the game dear to the darkey's heart. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War
Saltwater marshes and ponds dot the landscape, and alligators lazily sun themselves on banks.
A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
No: look at the buoy, wish-wash, rolling lazily, bobbing in the water, a lazy, idle cask, with nothing in the world to do on this day of busy mischief. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
There was only a slight breeze as the bus lazily took the curves, passing beneath trees that had blossomed with white flowers.
Beyond my kitchen's open windows were scarlet geraniums on the balcony; a background of pines, hemlocks and larches in the garden; blue sky; bees buzzing lazily among the flowers.
At first it came down almost lazily, in huge, silent flakes which soon blanketed the frozen ground.
She shifted her gaze to where he motioned for her to look and saw boats with white sails skimming lazily across the still orange-tinted waters.
Marabou feathers undulated lazily from the hemline and sleeves of a long, lean gown in black silk that glinted with sequins. John Galliano Autumn/Winter 2011: Only 19 Looks, Model Makes Statement With Tattoo (PHOTOS)
Kassa sat on the sofa nervously twiddling her thumbs; Vlad sat beside her lazily pawing her hair.
The languor of sleep being still upon him, he lazily watched the quivering of a sunbeam that was caught in the canopying boughs above. Flip, a California romance
Anywhere a track runs down to the shore will do; park the car and watch egrets flapping lazily across the fat and sluggish stream.
Just then, to the windward a full-rigged ship bears down on them, "the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily ... “Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
As I strolled lazily along the beach this afternoon, I found a beautiful silver bracelet.
Efficient skaters lean forward at the waist, hands held behind the back, legs lazily scissoring back and forth to notch up 15-20 kilometres an hour, hour after hour.
As we were getting accustomed to the unusual topography, a pair of bottom-dwelling juvenile batfishes drifted lazily by.
He pointed at his monitor, where a nanite swarm swirled lazily in live video on-screen. Delta Anomaly
The cafes at either end of the street are sparsely populated, and the aproned man grilling wurst for the restaurant looks bored, lonely and cold, wisps of smoke wreathing lazily about his head.
They stood beneath the dense shade of a splendid kurrajong, and lazily flicked the flies off themselves while Frank Hawden held the reins and waited for me. My Brilliant Career
A radar rolls lazily around, ominous in the continuous certainty of its task.

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