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Sentence Examples I've been through this before, selling a house into a slack, sluggish market. Hearing this devastating turn of conversation, my jaw fell slack in disbelief. It took just one heave and one ho for the rope to go slack as my former self went head over heels into the pit. Even the hand that had consistently gripped his own through the whole encounter fell slack. They moved around behind the tree, then the rope went slack and the ground smashed up. In Compagnie Cahin Caha, director Gulko performs a near-calamitous off-balance act on the slack rope. With a slack Mexican economy, Modelo's contribution to net this year is about flat. However, somewhere in the lean, mean 1980s and '90s, the importance of slack resources was lost. The average occupancy rate of the hotels has exceeded 90 per cent, with significant recovery from an earlier slack business season. If you have quality, there is never gonna be a slack time for your restaurant. But getting angry with himself for making this mistake was just as fruitless as brooding over the slack business owner. If energy prices were high when the economy was slack, how much higher would they go when it was firing on all cylinders? But matters are often made a great deal worse by slack micro-management practices adding to the burden. But later he began to put off payment, giving the excuse that business was slack. They can still sell at a very handsome profit even in a slack market and some did. With little access to credit, they were not well equipped to withstand competition or slack periods of trade. The local tourism industry arranges winter celebrations and activities to prevent a slack season. So I wasn't ready to be there, I was a bit slack, and I guess I was difficult. If his first novel feels a little slack, however, Norman's more recent work seems to have tipped over into a more deterministic mode. The industry is still swamped with capacity, and the slack economy has slowed demand. Show More Sentences These attacks will continue, and enforcement will be slack, especially if Boy George gets another four years. Though the pace is slack and the jokes are slim, the chemistry between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson is as sparkly as ever. One minute later however Leixlip went ahead again courtesy of some very slack defending. In the second half Penrith got back in the game when slack marking left a defender free to prod in. They're all getting drunk in a bar somewhere, moaning about how slack Cape Town business people are. Haxby United edged into a 1-0 lead over visiting Old Malton when slack defensive play let in David Thompson for a well-taken header. Five first-half tries put them firmly in control only for Salford to make the most of some slack defence. They say they have no idea when or how Beggs got into the country because of slack EU border controls. But one issue is more important than slack students, ill-prepared teachers or indifferent parents. In principle, the steady drone of flat, slack sentences reproduces the demoralised world they depict, not the limits of the writer's talent. Steve Staunton's resulting centre picked out Angel who took advantage of slack marking to head past Steve Banks. You can be slack at times if you are too assured, but fortunately I have never had that sort of luxury. Is this Government so slack, so lax, and so incompetent that it has not actually considered that issue before today? City of York VIII crashed 5-0 to hosts Rotherham, the visitors throwing the game away by slack marking. It would be different, I guess, if the parent was not present, but this slack approach to parenting is disgraceful. We were in the Operating Room doing a case and in order to break the routine of work, we were relating a lot of slack jokes. Despite all of this, he can still manage to laugh and share a slack joke with me, so he is in reasonably good spirits. Enter too soon before, or too long after slack tide, and we will get blown off the reef and possibly end up in a very dangerous position. On neap tides it's usually slack enough to dive an hour before this and up to an hour after. Reeling the little Calcutta 400 quite quickly in the slack tide gave the eel just that little extra zip and fish attracting noise in the water. Show More Sentences He went until the rope pulled tight and then he barked for more slack to be given. I was so eager that I took off without waiting for Ben to answer or to take the slack out of the rope. Show how to lead properly by having slack in the lead rope and allowing the horse to carry his head at a natural level. We had taken most of the slack out of the ropes, but there was always some. A sport climber will keep falling until he is past the last quickdraw he's clipped into and all the slack in the rope is taut. We decided that even if all the slack in the rigging had been removed, the 45m rope would still have been well short. With the slack in the rope, she darted forward, and pinched the bulge in her teeth, and tugged, eliciting a scream from Spade. I followed and when I arrived at the slung chockstone I yelled for slack to get some rope in order to lower myself across the slab. You might have a bit of slack in the rope but it will just tighten up at the other end. She puts slack on the rope and tells the stupid man just to back away slowly. The rope would tighten and then slack and then tighten, jerking Darren while all the time cutting into his already tore up wrists. Other shallow wrecks in the area accessible at slack water include a variety of smaller Mulberry components and an infantry landing craft. Their jaws slack, they slouch just so, and their thumbs hook their belt loops. Clearly the Fed feels that growth in the economy can continue for some time before the slack in terms of labour resources is absorbed. His father's skin, once ruddy from a lifetime of Montana ranching, has gone waxen and slack. Rafts of weed can be commonplace drifting downstream, and they come to rest in many a slack, eddy or on any partly submerged structure. These men will go for eye surgery, to remove bags and lines, or for face lifts to tighten slack jowls. I mean who else is there to take up the slack for them, when their fifteen minutes of fame is running out. She's convinced that no matter how hard she works out, the skin that covers her taut biceps is growing daily more slack and wrinkly. With the labor market that slack, there's no reason for companies to get into bidding wars for workers. Show More Sentences You yourself will certainly feel the rhythm, slack or strong, high or low, taut or loose. I put Margarita hard astern, yelling at Paul to grab the line and pull slack into the cockpit. Take the slack out of the stay by adjusting the tackle fall, then put a tiny drop of super-glue in the last hole to secure the fall. When we arrived I could see at the tail of the pool a super looking slack on the left hand bank which literally screamed chub. When the gymnast misses the beam the device instantly picks up the slack on the gym elastics, preventing her crashing to the ground. His lower lip was slack and a dribble of saliva appeared at the corner of his mouth. The fledgling's breathing and heartbeat slowed, taut muscles went slack, and his third eyelids slid halfway across his bright gaze. With the ball teed and using a 6-iron, hit practice shots while letting your arms go slack at the top and again on the finish. He used pole and maggot in the marginal slack water for a mixed net of small roach and perch scaling 3lb 9oz. During slack water, tugs tow freight barges and rafts of logs through the narrows with scant room to manoeuvre. Maybe he was too slack at half-time. Maybe the tone in his voice sent the wrong message. So I have been trying to cut the folks at Technorati some slack, since they have gone over to a new beta recently. You really have to be on top of everything, and you can't slack on anything. The climber will tie into one end of the rope and the belayer will take up slack from the other end using his belaying device. Seatbelt retractors used to just roll up the belt when you weren't using it and control the slack when you were. Gordon explained that the ideal tide for the Seven Stones was a low-water spring, with a good hour of slack water and the rocks exposed. We generally allow a slack period between completing the purchase and actually moving in. Chiron's vaccine troubles wouldn't be such a worry if its biotech drugs made up the slack. Tightly edited, it doesn't grow as slack or indulgent as many mockumentaries do. Now, I know there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle and all that, but not if the strings are that slack. Show More Sentences When the tide turns and the water becomes slack, the dives are dull, with little wildlife. Did you really expect him to cut you some slack with a victory in his sights? Insofar as this is a human foible, a mere unsightly blemish on the doctrine of RC, I give it a lot of slack. But now I can also unclip the M.U.L.E.'s chest and waist thingies, letting the unit hang slack. Let out just enough slack line from the reel so that the bobbin is suspended two to three inches below the rod. He tried to stand up to get in a better position, gasping, but then the Urg's grip went slack and he limped over, dead. Among the flap of slack sails she heard the men talking, but made no effort to understand their conversation. Lynx saw to his right the rope go slack, and saw the same on his left, and felt the bridge leave from under his feet. I held the slack rope taut in various positions and Jim measured and recorded the segments' lengths. There is plenty of time for storytelling as we wait for slack tide. They deliberately built slack into middle managers' schedules. It seems others have to pick up the slack you create in shirking existing obligations. Certainly it's not the lame, dated jokes, the lazy writing, the slack narrative pacing, the boring matiness of the male ensemble or the overall emptiness of the film. If you start the retrieve with the tip of the rod high above the water, you will create a big belly of slack that absorbs every movement of your line hand. One plus from slack labor demand will be lower inflation next year. Her jaw went slack for a moment, then she started smiling like crazy. Obama's offensive caught the Romney camp completely by surprise and left them flat-footed and slack jawed. His chest was still, his face was loose and white, his mouth hung slack. The second glitch came a few hours after that, when some of the cables used to pull the ship upright started to slack. Pricier oil, a strong euro, and slack labor markets are all big factors. Show More Sentences At springs, the slack lasts 40 minutes and at neaps 90 minutes. Her face became taut, then she went slack with a strange despair. I'm feeling awful because I've been so terribly slack lately. Some employers, it seems, are capitalizing on the slack job market. Expect the main action to come the two hours either side of slack water. The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack. We worship our sporting heroes to the point where while they are on top they can do little wrong and more often than not we cut them some slack if they slip on a banana skin. But other Sunbelt locales, notably Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma have picked up much of the slack. His jaw quivered and dropped, while the rest of his body fell slack. Turn into the wind and let out the sheet to allow the sail to go slack. And he certainly hasn't been slack since getting to Calgary, either. Contemporary Hawaiian music is characterized by slack key guitar, ukulele, and themes particular to Hawaii such as Hawaiian sovereignty and native Hawaiian values. A belayer holds the end of the rope, hooked to his or her karabiner and through the belay device, to take up rope slack as the climber ascends the wall. In our turf-fire environment, the unusual smells of coal slack and hooves burning when a red-hot shoe was fitted, although unpleasant, are nonetheless memorable. After the break Morton threatened straight away and Moffat burst a slack home defence to beat keeper Brown, but his shot hit the woodwork and Curran missed the rebound. In thermoforming operations, we often rely on recoil in the sheet to tauten the slack caused by the sheet bowing. We attach you to a climbing rope, someone belays you from below, taking up the slack as you climb. He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this. Due to increasingly slack religious practice in Lindisfarne, Cuthbert was sent to Lindisfarne as a way to reform the religious community. Together these control slack between the locomotive and train, absorb minor impacts and provide a bearing point for pushing movements. Show More Sentences Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack. It was common for women take factory jobs seasonally during slack periods of farm work. The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack water or slack tide. But there are locations where the moments of slack tide differ significantly from those of high and low water. The rain prevented them from using their bows because the sinew strings become slack when wet, and rendered them virtually defenseless. And if you were a little panicky while preggo, I urge you to cut yourself some slack, too. A counter faller under the thread was made to rise to take in the slack caused by backing off. The ukulele, slack key guitar, and steel guitar all came from this mixing of Hawai'ian and haole culture. He accused the government of slack supervision of nuclear technology. Her bangs hung loosely around her slack face and shadowed her eyes. He knew I was a Chicago guy, and he cut me absolutely no slack. Pete caught it touch ledgering a triple maggot on a size 14 to a far bank slack, on the Croxdale 'ferryham'' stretch downstream of The Honest Lawyer. Now and anon a little puff of breeze caught the foresail and bellied it out for a moment, only to let it flap back against the mast, limp and slack, once more. With cauliflower ears, a lumbering stoop and a slack jaw, he possesses the size and gait of a performing bear, and the same sense of deep but uncomprehending unhappiness. I was then attached to a PS5000 board, with a 10m slack tube leading to another jetski ridden by Mike Leonard, who led me through my 25-minute session. The word snye, sny or snie has been used for many years to describe a channel behind an island, with slack current or partly dried, or some such similar feature. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. People will move over to electronic mail in a bigger way, couriers will pick up the slack left by the Post Office and people will learn over time to do without snail mail. To keep the home fires burning local merchants were hoping they would still be able to supply unrationed fuel such as open-cast slack to be used for banking up fires. Examples from Classical Literature When there was a slack time there was always dirt to drag up the steep slopes. Don't slack this, or some gusty day the pilot may unexpectedly find himself minus the aileron control. The capsular and other ligaments are slack, so that the joint is unstable and easily hyper-extended. I fastened the boat, and then, with the oars on my shoulder and the slack of the codline in my hand, start him up the shell road. So samp kind of hitched up his ambition and took the slack out of his habits for a few months and went to the legislature. But in a slack and unreflecting fashion the divestment has gone on until the aggregate effect is unmistakable. For a moment the line hung slack, as a great back-wave lifted the boat on its crest and carried it seawards. It was excusable for her to slack a little on Monday after drudging all through the week. When they reached fifty-ninth street Jerry's head was bobbing and his reins were slack. The coves and hollows were better wooded and there were some stretches of slack water. He was in the slack water of the soul, when the ebb is spent, before the tide has begun to flow. And it was slack water in the minds of men floating on that dark and sinister harbour. It has also been suggested to improve the river Raisin by locks and slack water navigation. And then, with a final wrestle, they were in slack water, and she loosed her hold and struck out alongside him. Each morning a thin film of ice was to be seen along the edges of the slack water. In slack water you will have to keep moving your set as the water rises and falls. Ruth, let us get the net and put it right across the creek as soon as it is slack water. There was the slur of Flagg about his slack efficiency in meeting the schemes of Craig. The Nancy Hanks got through the lock and the mules picked up the slack of the towrope again at Louise's vigorous suggestion. Never had her bony, angular face, her slack figure and sloping shoulders seemed so unalluring. Show More Sentences Once her rope rose, sailed forward and then dropped slack to the ground, the pony cantering on ahead undisturbed, and uncaptured. Watching every opportunity of a slack guard, he endeavours to uncase her, in order to touch what is always the most concealed. Her limp body was slipping to the floor in a nerveless heap, her muscles slack and unresponding. Denisov was angry with the Cossack because the saddle girths were too slack, reproved him, and mounted. Tell him to slack off the mainsheet, and before you know it, he'd drop the peak. That intolerable cub shuffled about so sleepily and lolled against the rails in such a slack, improper fashion that I came down on him sharply. As she luffs up we shall man the fore and main sheets, slack on the weather, and haul on the lee braces. I was six months aboard a Garnsey lugger, hauling in the slack of the lee-sheet and coiling up rigging. Discovering that his martingale had more slack in it than usual, he proceeded to give an exhibition of rearing and hind-leg walking. The cord should be slack, and that will admit of the gaiter coming off. She had needed them to combat Len's shiftlessness and slack good nature. He ran young Alec Simpson of the Courier a mile down the high road last week by the collar of his coat and the slack of his breeches. Too rash Love in its choice, paid you so largely service so slack! Regularly, every slack water, without slyness, boldly and openly in the broad day, Big Alec was to be seen running his line. It was slack water now, and the river stood still, holding its breath. Latisan was not tactful in his excuse for the slack aspect of the house. I forgot to tell you, but we may again have a slack season, Tanya. At the moment he looked to me convincingly tired, gone slack all over, like a man who has passed through some sort of crisis. Additional vocabularies, nomenclatures, terminologies were developed to pick up the slack. He twined his fingers lovingly in the slack of Mr. Pilkington's coat. Show More Sentences Once the varicose veins are gone, other veins deeper in the body take up the slack. At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the fog was lifted. For a brief interval Sandy allowed the babiche to fall slack. Solomon Pell in court, regaling himself, business being rather slack, with a cold collation of an Abernethy biscuit and a saveloy. Yes, Guenever was beautiful, it is true, but take her all around she was pretty slack. Palace have secured safety in the top flight but boss Tony Pulis insists they won't slack off in the final three games. He would go and fire up that dressing room, grab people by the neck, throw cups of tea around and not let people slack off. Mark Robertson capitalised on slack Reivers defending to run through for only try in the first half. The strain once over, she appeared slack, gaunt, debilitated. Joan cried in a low voice, pointing across the narrow stream to a slack eddy where a huge crocodile drifted like a log awash. In the winter slack season she may find a position as a saleswoman. Unlike a friend or colleague, a man's best friend won't cancel on you, give excuses, moan about the weather or slack off the pace. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. He was one of those boys who are too slack to play games, and he exercised great ingenuity in making excuses to avoid such as were compulsory. Ayllon had the necklace with him in the slack of his doublet. This will keep up all the slack and lost motion of the screw and its nut. There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight. No more were they worried by slack times, strike and lockout, and the union label. The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river. Unable to hang on as close in the eye of the wind as formerly, he proceeded to slack his sheet a trifle and to ease off a bit, in order to outfoot me. Show More Sentences Amid the bustle, Gurth was taken from horseback, in the course of which removal he prevailed upon the Jester to slack the cord with which his arms were bound. Work being slack at present at Devil's Ford, I reck'ned I'd take a pasear down to 'Frisco, and dip into the vortex o' fash'nable society and out again. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of slack? Words that rhyme with slack What is the past tense of slack? What is the plural of slack? What is the adverb for slack? What is the adjective for slack? What is the noun for slack? Translations for slack Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words slab-sided slabs slab pull slab-like slabby Slabber Slack slacked slacken slackened slackening slackens 5-letter Words Starting With s sl sla slac