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.
Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Although players such as Brooking will not likely be moving anywhere, the second tier of available backers is no group of slouches.
Everything we didthe way we walked, talked, the way we sat slouched, one leg draped across the armrest of the sofadrove him crazy. Postcards from Heaven
This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk. 'Alice': Half a Wonderland
These are low-fi tunes, sometimes slouching, sometimes cheery, more subdued and experimental than usual. The Sun
She shows us ponchos have a grungy side by teaming this slouchy slashed top with pink cords.
Small wonder that, mounted on her fiery little mustang, untrammeled by her short gray riding-habit, free as the wind itself that blew through the folds of her flannel blouse, with her brown hair half-loosed beneath her slouched felt hat, she seemed to Dick a more beautiful and womanly figure than the stiff buckramed simulation of man's angularity and precision he had seen in the parks. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
When I get lazy or tired, I get slouchy.
A carry-over from winter, the freshest styles are cut to reveal the toes, and come in soft canvas and slouchy leather.
The house is elegant but informal - slouchy white sofas in the lounge and a kitchen that runs on an honesty system, stocked with drinks and snacks. Times, Sunday Times
This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk. Archive 2008-12-01
And Law possesses the frumpy slouch of a man dissatisfied with his lot in life.
We had a small side room with a slouchy couch and a television set.
Her eyes were bloodshot, her black hair frizzled, her shoulders slouched.
I am nudging 5ft 10 in, if you can get me to straighten up and stop slouching for a minute.
He's young, stubbly and scruffy, a slouchy cool that makes one think that Kate must be cool and edgy, too. 'Kate-alikes': Would-be princesses find a new muse in Kate Middleton
Poor posture, sitting or walking slouched over, compresses the body's organs.
It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like. Isabelle
Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
Her hat slouched down to her cheek.
I myself slouch in my chair so badly that my spine is curved like a boomerang.
While green tea may be a nutritional over-achiever, other tea varieties like black and oolong are no slouches either.
Advocate example official gives orders when at attention, disclosure a particularly dingy soldier is standing slouchingly.
They saw him slouch for'ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor. LOVE OF LIFE
Castroneves, also a Brazilian, was no slouch either, racing to three victories and three poles and finishing seventh in the points.
You wouldn't believe the number of shots I look at each week where the subject is slouching like a slummock.
Then there's the large shirt worn with the Indian tight 'churidar' trousers, or you can wear them in a more slouchy, Marlene Dietrich way, with pyjama pants. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
They look equally good under a slouchy jumper, if you'd rather cover up. Times, Sunday Times
She peeped through the holes in the rock at the hundreds of wolves sitting and slouching or lying against the trees, looking at the rocks.
When you slouch or stand with a swayback, you exaggerate your back's natural curves.
She's no slouch on the guitar.
Mr. Albert led the slouchy, disinterested crowd in a round of applause for Holly.
Western Hymn is no slouch either. The Sun
Proper standing posture, no slouching and do lean against the wall.
He slouches with disappointment and straightens with hope, matching Terri's corrosiveness with his own brand of compassion and burrowing into the female enclave of Terri's home with both tenderness and tenacity.
Jimmy slouched back in his chair.
What else does one wear with a slouchy pyjama trouser suit? Times, Sunday Times
The number of times I see sales staff slouching against walls or counters playing with their hair, or all standing around having a great old gossip - are too many to count.
In fact, the slouchier, more relaxed cuts are clearly catching on.
She slouched in her chair and logged on to her internal e-mail. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Meanwhile, slouchy, insecure Brigitte starts feeling complex emotions.
Charles Davis came abaft the 'midship-house, and, while we talked, many faces peered over the for'ard edge of the house and many forms slouched into view on the deck on each side of the house. CHAPTER XLV
If Higgins and Tom Kelly are star performers then the others are no slouches either.
There were a hundred or so of Susquehanna raftsmen, grouped about in the ticket office, in every, conceivable position, and dressed in all kinds of inconceivable fashions, the favourite style appearing to be a slouched hat, rough flannel shirt of gorgeous pattern, and bedtick trousers, tucked into high boots. A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
His hat of brown felt slouches over bright red hair; one cuffless hand, lank and long, hangs down inert, the other sleeve falls loose; he is one-armed. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls
She demanded again, and poked Greg in the arm until he stopped slouching, moved up to the suit, and yanked off the helmet.
They are soft and slouchy, and look great with jeans. Times, Sunday Times
This afternoon, for instance, I was slouching here on my futon when I felt more than the doziness that I've had all day, an actual feeling that I could very well go to sleep now.
A lanky man, with grizzled brows and untrimmed beard, got up slowly from the stringpiece of the wharf and slouched forward to meet Janice Day. Janice Day at Poketown
Since the recent refit it now has leather armchairs with leather footstools that you can slouch in with tables for food and drink.
But he had to work hard within himself, forcing himself outside to walk when he wanted to slouch in a chair.
He had been traveling astoop, partly because the burden of his years weighed heavy on his shoulders, partly as if his muscles had unconsciously reverted to the easy, slouching, climbing-stoop of the Kentucky mountaineer. In Old Kentucky
Western Hymn is no slouch either. The Sun
Straighten your back - try not to slouch.
And if the day turns a bit chilly, it's simple just to layer up by wearing a slinky vest underneath, and trousers with a slouchy belt.
Meanwhile, as we try ever harder to sell our wares in the States, they're no slouches at the reverse operation.
Love the funky silver leather jacket and the slouchy casual dress.
Her hat slouched down to her cheek.
This is the same Mr. Moss whom Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis assessed as a "slouch" last winter, and the same Mr. Moss who burned Mr. Revis on a touchdown reception during the Jets '28-14 victory over the Patriots on Sept. 19. Jets Call Favre's Era 'Uncomfortable'
This heartwarming news was unclouded by any mention that alcohol itself is no slouch when it comes to cellular damage.
For the most sumptuous layering for relaxing at home, wear slouchy drawstring trousers, cami and an oversized wrap-around cardigan in grey marl cashmere mix.
They're twitchy, slouchy, and angry-looking.
Slouchy drawstring pants, a blouson jacket with crystal cuffs, stretchy mini skirts and tiny mid-riff tops.
Also starring in the campaign is the "Knight" bag - a studded, slouchy leather tote that is due to be in stores in early August.
In the end, I had to forgo the dream of ivy-covered buildings and slouchy young men on a first-name basis with Kierkegaard.
The captain, slouch-hatted and barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist and spat tobacco juice overside. A SON OF THE SUN
A beggar slouches against a wall, his legs festering with open wounds.
The singer shows us ponchos have a grungy side by teaming this slouchy slashed top with pink cords.
The general sits astride his favorite horse, Cincinnati; he is slouched, right arm akimbo, hat pulled low, gazing off in the distance with the cool dispassion for which he was famous. A Great Bronze Tarnished by Neglect
We can decide to straighten up at any time, but as soon as we start thinking about something else, our body adopts its usual slouchy mode.
It seems that this is the season of the slouchy bag. Times, Sunday Times
Mandeville and Southgate slouched on their horses, both dressed in leather quilted jackets, their feet encased in long riding boots.
Leonidas muttered; he slouched across the sofa, unaired, sluggish. COUP D'ETAT
Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses.
‘He won't talk ’, Mamoru grunted sourly, slouching back in his chair.
Slouching off in the first two years of med school has turned out to be a great motivator for me.
To their credit however, those two remaining guards were no slouches.
If the Tories seem like the nasty party again, disaffected Labour folk could well slouch back home, albeit grudgingly.
In the current catalogue models play around in loose cotton granddad shirts and soft, slouchy blazers in summery fields and on rocking rowing boats. Times, Sunday Times
While the couple's bodies do not seem as tall and elongated as runway models, their slim slouching torsos fit the body ideal of contemporary advertising campaigns.
Truman Capote may have been the only man who could mince while slouching; that takes exceptional skill.
The competition deserves a higher status than it has had in the past, because the clubs involved in it are certainly no slouches.
What else does one wear with a slouchy pyjama trouser suit? Times, Sunday Times
Then he slouched from the room, slamming the door behind him. THE BOOK LADY
Not exactly known as slouches in the recording studio, this is still not the kind of behaviour we expect from recording artists these days.
It drank its fill, shook its mane, slouched off down the hill to the dense cover at the edge of the plain. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
A small desk top lectern or a board propped on books could be the cheapest and quickest way of banishing your slouch. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
Straighten your back - try not to slouch.
The new 2-litre diesel is no slouch either. The Sun
When there wasn't a skirt, slouchy pants echoed the former. Jim Shi: New York Fashion Week, Day One: BCBG Max Azria, Richard Chai Love, Vena Cava, Ports 1961 & L.A.M.B. (PHOTOS)
Slouchy: A Mommy Blogger is a kind of diarist who writes in a magical land, Under the Mad Hat
I ususally slouch around town in trendy but by most standards low-heeled shoes.
From a smoke-colored twill kilt worn over a skinny trouser, to a jet wool cashmere utility vest worn over a charcoal-striped tweed double-breasted chesterfield, Mr. Chai delivered, literally, new dimensions to his love of slouchy elegance to sublime effect. Richard Chai LOVE Re-Mixes Materials
Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice. Monsieur Lecoq
The bumbag and shades are beyond cool, and the slouchy masculine tailoring is stylishly grown-up. The Sun
I'm crazy for the slouchy, midcalf, flat boot with a ton of side buckles, another huge footwear trend.
Ollie cradled his nearly empty brandy glass in both of his hands on his stomach as he slouched in his big chair. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
Team this patterned pencil skirt with a slouchy white tee. Times, Sunday Times
Am relieved to get back to office and resume slouchy work-desk posture.
Flat-fronted trousers that have a slouchier fit at the waist before tapering into the knee and ankle. Times, Sunday Times
And if the day turns a bit chilly, it's simple just to layer up by wearing a slinky vest underneath, and trousers with a slouchy belt.
Chris, who was already waiting there, removed his hands from behind his head and sat up, for he had been positioned in a lazy slouch.
I lay slouched back in my ripped leather chair, legs crossed on the table, eyes shut, and my dune hat (without grosgrain band) slipped slightly below the brow.
a slouchy sweater
He seems to have never progressed beyond the slouchy habits of a wayward teenager.
A divided drove of branded cattle passed the windows, lowing, slouching by on padded hoofs, whisking their tails slowly on their clotted bony croups. Ulysses
Reporting from Reno- The woman slouched on the steps of the rundown motel, her hair mussed, her pinkish outfit rumpled, her expression perplexed. Latimes.com - News
She slurped her tea as loud as she could, blew on her sandwich, although it wasn't hot, and slouched in her chair.
She came across the stage with a marvellous slouch, has poise, panache, posture, studied clothes and high beauty.
I am looking at this word "slouch" which I have never used like this before. La routine - French Word-A-Day
I reminded myself that I had missed my regular writing session yesterday, and then I remembered something Joan Didion wrote in the preface to Slouching Towards Bethlehem about writing the title piece: 2009 October « Exile on Ninth Street
I could feel back muscles, long-neglected in my habitual desk-bound slouch, working. Times, Sunday Times
His career sag in the unironic, conservative 1990s traced the same slouch as Lynch's.
It should be noted the Khan of Kabul and his soldiers were no slouches either, giving the British several hidings in the late 19th Century.
The real estate agent was gloomy, with a defeated slouch, and he shuffled us morosely through the overpriced apartment that all of us knew we would not rent. Day of Honey
The new 2-litre diesel is no slouch either. The Sun
Karen runs up the stairs after her, as a defeated and dejected Mrs. Tilford slouches out the door.
Straighten your back - try not to slouch.
He had new and good clothes on, and was handsome and had a winning face and a pleasant voice, and was easy and graceful and unembarrassed, not slouchy and awkward and diffident, like other boys.
He stood slouched against one of the set's walls, his hands in his pockets and his feet crossed at the ankles.
With her doctorate in medieval history, and a quick and ready mind, Pam would be no slouch herself under questioning.
Only then were many prepared to let their partner see them in slouchy clothes or big pants. Times, Sunday Times
His current winter collection features slouch pants, lustrous shirt dresses, halter tops and knee-length dirndl skirts in a predominantly black, white and camel palette.
Trousers are wide-legged and slouchy, perfect for balancing out hips.
He slouched in the back row and got systematically ripped.
But the allies were no slouches either, and they incorporated their war correspondents much more closely into the military machine.
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Except for his impeccably accented English and a certain indefinable air about his bearing (I always say no one slouches quite as elegantly as an Englishman), an observer might have taken my son for one of the Egyptians among whom he had spent most of his life. Excerpt: He Shall Thunder In The Sky by Elizabeth Peters
And the supporting cast isn't a bunch of slouches.
Half-slouched, her elbow rested gingerly on the thin armrest, with her head propped up with her hand.
he's no slouch when it comes to baseball
If this is the best you have, then vote for the 'boorish' McCain, you ignorant slouch. GOP House Candidate Calls Black Newscaster "Uppity"
What else does one wear with a slouchy pyjama trouser suit? Times, Sunday Times
For the most sumptuous layering for relaxing at home, wear slouchy drawstring trousers, cami and an oversized wrap-around cardigan in grey marl cashmere mix.
It's all floaty layers, off-the-shoulder peasant tops and big, slouchy cardies - exactly the kind of things you want to wear on a brisk autumnal afternoon.
Perhaps you find yourself hunching or slouching as you talk about what you want, or having a strong desire to bolt out of the room.
The single fellows had no such doubts (much); beneath me a bunch in slouch hats and jeans were passing the jug around boisterously, and one with a melodeon was striking up: Isabelle
If you haven't retired your slouchy socks and striped spandex leggings yet, then you may still be longing for workouts like those again. Jill S. Brown: Infomercial Workouts: Are They For You?
He slouches to his feet and leans against a wall to be photographed, all limbs and mortified smile.
Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their and down at heel, they slouched past.
She scans the groups until she sees a six-foot-three player slouching under a far basket.
And big city police forces are no slouches either.
The music is no slouch either. The Sun
Beat’s outer trappings — black turtlenecks, cigarette pants, neckerchiefs, berets — is indebted less to Jack Kerouac and his wayward cohort, who slouched about in frayed flannel shirts, than to stylized interpretations in movies like “Funny Face” or the less well-known “Subterraneans,’’ a 1960 film based on a Kerouac novel about the kinky denizens of North Beach in San Francisco. August 2006
Some of the usual causes of stress and strain on the spine include slouching in chairs, driving in hunched positions, lifting heavy objects incorrectly, sleeping on sagging mattresses and being unfit or overweight.
That means they won't be slouching around in hoodies and chibbing Mr Tumnus for his lunch money. Toynbee is a fuckwit #500
"Americans are so laid back and slouchy," says the Southern California teen.
It had to be tightened before every zip as it was riding low on my hips, slipping off my shoulders and being slouchy on my thighs and chest.
Slouchy or hobo handbags remain strong for day, while the clutch reappears for night.
They wheeled, graceful as gulls, whoever their partners-elegant, hatchet-faced dagoes in mangas, red-faced sports sodden on Taos whisky or vino, bearded miners in slouch hats and red shirts, or great clumsy buckskin brigadeers who whooped and yelled and capered like Indians. Isabelle
Escada Escada Sport's pre-fall collection featured pieces such as slouchy boots. Escada's New Groove
Thirty-eight mostly middle-aged people are slouching around with beers and coffee, watching Italian football on a large screen or playing Neapolitan cards.
Parkas slung over slouchy knits and velvet skirts - the more contrasting textures you put together the better it looks.
Give it up for a gutsy pair of slouchy, droopy midcalf boots that ask to hold a drapey pair of pants.
The 20 gauge is no slouch, but only a starter gun for waterfowl if you can't handle a 12 gauge just yet. Remington 870
The music is no slouch either. The Sun
The other two boys slouched against the wall, long legs dangling, looking incredibly crowded, broad shoulders nearly brushing, limbs and bodies crammed, cramped, sardined on the little bed.
Trousers were either tapered or, somewhat more flatteringly, slouchy.
Only then were many prepared to let their partner see them in slouchy clothes or big pants. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, to paraphrase coarsely Márquez's dictum given by him both as a writer and a fighter for justice, the writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born. Nadine Gordimer - Nobel Lecture
I offer one of them my hat, a ridiculous khaki slouch affair with batik underlay beneath the brim - an Australian design, naturally - that I bought in Turkey years ago.
Sam slouched back and propped his elbows up on the bench behind him.
Too many gorgeous stripped athletes had he seen slouched into conventional garmenting, to expect too much of the marvelous creature in the white silken swimming suit when it should appear garbed as civilized women garb. CHAPTER X
Honest Roger, the red-haired coachman, would have looked like a clown in a pantomime, in front of a fashionable equipage; and Simon the footboy, who slouched at my back, would have been mistaken for an idle urchin surreptitiously enjoying a ride. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
The boy in front of me has an odd posture: almost in a fetal position, slouched far, far down.
Jimmy slouched back in his chair.
His latest collection includes slick tailoring, slouchy knits and smart shirting. Times, Sunday Times
Many of Kevin Pollard's costumes were unflattering: Ms. DiDonato spent most of the show slouching around in what looked like a muumuu and dreadlocks, Ms. de Niese's androgynous brown getup made nothing of her beauty, and Plácido Domingo Neptune was overpowered by hair and clothing that made him look silly rather than godlike. Promoting the Baroque In an ADHD World
He walks over to the brown cane chair by the porch swing and slouches down in It.
The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Just as one leather-jacketed, slouching renegade by name of Jim Steel took me under his musical wing, to open my ears to the glories of The Stooges, The Ramones, Radio Birdman and suchlike, it was one surgical-gowned, growling reprobate by name of Fergus Bannon who opened up my eyes, searing his scribblings on the inside of my skull -- right at the back, by the medulla oblongata, the snake-brain. Archive 2009-12-01
He makes elegant, drapey gowns, slouchy trousers and cardigan jackets in safe colours, usually navy, 'greige', sand and taupe. Times, Sunday Times
He grunted again, before slouching off to the counter to order some drinks.
Armed soldiers lined the walls and slouched in the galleries of the courtroom as du Toit testified.
I adore the first picture, where the dull black slouchy outfit is brought to life with the simple addition of wool turtleneck and sleeves.
The other man, in nondescript garments that were both of the sea and shore, and that must have been uncomfortably hot, slouched and shambled like an overgrown ape. Chapter 14
She stands about six feet tall, dressed in a black leotard with running shoes and a slouchy black duffle bag slumped at her feet.
Once you have your big, slouchy sofa, there is the question of how to deal with it in the room. The Best in Squooshy Sofas
Sam slouched back into the bleachers and propped his elbows up on the bench behind him. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Prada, Spring 2012 This demure dressing-up is a far cry from the dressed-down black-leather leggings, biker jackets and slouchy tees that had previously dominated so many runways. Fashion's Real Housewives
Only then were many prepared to let their partner see them in slouchy clothes or big pants. Times, Sunday Times
The kids are a nightmare: lippy, slouchy, easily distracted.
You can slouch on the sofa, with a bowl on your stomach. Times, Sunday Times
An imposing man with the makings of a beard splotched across his face, Garrard skulked down the grimy Philadelphia streets slouched forward as if his muscles were barely contained within his hoodie. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
SIMON: A little girl with frizzy hair and glasses sitting at her desk, I was glumpy, I was grouchy, I was slouching in my chair. Books for Kids, for Every Winter Holiday
But she is also seen in riding boots and jeans, but of the smart variety rather than slouchy ones preferred by Prince Harry.
I gave a disgusted sigh and moved away from the living room and slouched down in one of the kitchen chairs.
I especially adore these slouchy platform boots.
Mama used to droop like a flower then, and she would slouch in her chair.
Men were returning home in thousands upon thousands, shedding their khaki uniforms and slouch hats for civvies. THE THORN BIRDS

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