slouch

How To Use slouch In A Sentence

• It's all slouchy, casual clothes in light and bright colours. Times, Sunday Times
• She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray.
• While all the other girls' clothes were cute and baggy and slouchy, my pencil skirt and tweed vest fit tight across my hips and butt.
• Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece. News | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
• Her newer slouchy silhouette offers sporty satin blouson jackets and drawstring pants to mix with sensual hand crochet knits.
• he stood slouchingly at the garden gate
• But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
• Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
• The process of kinesic analysis in interviewing and interrogation is first to establish a baselinea catalog of behaviors that subjects exhibit when telling the truth: Where do they put their hands, where do they look and how often, do they swallow or clear their throats often, do they lace their speech with Uhm, do they tap their feet, do they slouch or sit forward, do they hesitate before answering? Roadside Crosses
• She stayed slouched down in her chair though, too dizzy to stand up at the moment.