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How to use indolent in a sentence

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Like an indolent poet, boiling within, forceful outside, the drummer filled the hall.
Improved after this indolent fashion, one of the hottest of my forenoons became also one of the most enjoyable.
For years he seems to have been content to play the indolent lounge lizard, and as a passive partner in four rather bossy marriages.
After a long, hot and indolent summer, Europe's winemakers enter a short period of frenetic activity, known in France as the vendange.
My single attempt was thwarted by an indolent server and my second never emerged past the exigencies of an overloaded in tray and inbox.
His corpulent figure and indolent manner belied ambition and a keen political intelligence.
Ten years ago, our nation's two leading rock critics declared the premier band of the era to be nothing but indolent hacks.
Lately he had become an indolent sea-bather idly scudding in the tepid shallows.
Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags.
Fungal or mycobacterial infections usually have an indolent and protracted course but can mimic bacterial arthritis.
In Noyce's film, Michael Caine plays the aging, indolent British journalist Thomas Fowler.
It would be quite difficult to eradicate the indolent, careless, incogitant habits so formed in youth.
In this regard, it is desirable to test their ability to distinguish between active disease and indolent infection.
Anyway, they inspire indolent ladies to train down and to diet and do sundry other things in the pursuit of slenderness.
His body went from the loose, almost indolent posture to one as taut as a Comanche bowstring.
As his government went from indolent to comatose, he made unprecedented use of the government jet as a taxi back home.
The workers are lazy indolent villains and the leaders are intelligent, hard working visionaries.
He has perhaps been as determined to realize his odd project as his proudly indolent subject was determined to avoid exertion.
Family allowances were designed to make the poor self-reliant and independent not lazy and indolent.
While Mother rises virtuously early for sacristan duties at Little Saint Mary's church, we heathens opt for an indolent morning with the papers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It forms an indolent swelling, which tends to break down slowly and to ulcerate.
You know how indolent Dionysus is, but he always attended the temple when he was hunting upon Nysa.
And he was also indolent, with the indolence which is so often the secret of good nature.
They appear to live upon horseback, and are indolent, indocile, and useless out of the saddle.
It was aristocratic, enchantingly indolent, like the face of a happy lotus-eater.
If a man chances to be a hedonist, he should show the good temper which is the best virtue of the indolent.
They had to assume an indolent attitude in pure opposition to his fussiness.
Are not some of us profitless and barren because we are too indolent to pray?
For a time at Locarno he was lax-minded and indolent, and in that time she formed her bright and limited plans for London.
The air, as it touched his face, was tropically warm and indolent with voluptuous fragrance of flowers and plants.
They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience.
The indolent habits, the unnamable tastes, have demoralized and unmothered the creature.
As a rule, the mestizos of Ecuador are ignorant, indolent and non-progressive.
I had a loose box, and might have been very comfortable if he had not been too indolent to clean it out.
It is very curious to watch this harem and its lord in their indolent ramblings.
If buboes accompany it, they are mostly of an indolent nature.
In his indolent, rather selfish way, he was much in love with his wife.
All at once, his mind had become too indolent to do any more thinking.
But he was as indolent of mind as he was unsparing of his body.
Clinically, the osteoma forms a hard, indolent tumour attached to a bone.
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