How to Use slacker in a Sentence
slacker
noun- The people I work with are a bunch of slackers.
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The story of three slackers who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.
— Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2020 -
Samberg plays a slacker stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive the same day over and over.
— Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021 -
Joe is just a hack and a slacker who everyone loves to hate.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The first one that often comes to mind is slacking off or slackers.
— Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 26 June 2017 -
Now, Elvis Costello has pulled off something to make even a stunt like that seem like the stuff of slackers.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023 -
Back in the 1990s, they were called the slacker generation: that’s right, Gen X.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 June 2023 -
This new Dublin-set show about a 33-year-old slacker who lives with his mom and is obsessed with his ex, should do the trick.
— Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021 -
One tester has been noise-free and one degree slacker for nearly a year.
— Outside Online, 27 May 2022 -
In some circles, a researcher who was always out of the door at 5 pm would be seen as a slacker.
— Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2016 -
No one here is a slacker; everyone’s on top of their game.
— Aiyana Ishmael, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2022 -
The slacker teen in me thinks complacency gets a bad rap.
— Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 May 2021 -
Introduce him to your slacker 37-year-old who still lives at home 6.
— oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2021 -
But this isn't simply new episodes of the 1993 MTV series about two dense slacker teens in Texas that ran for eight seasons.
— James Hibberd, EW.com, 1 July 2020 -
Mallratz, a forest green, riffs on the 1995 slacker hit that cycled through Poole's VCR.
— Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2018 -
Stephen Malkmus, the slacker anti-hero of the 1990s indie scene, is that rare creature: An old man who can still rock.
— Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 4 June 2018 -
No slacker, Kafera will graduate in the top 10 percent of her class with a weighted 4.0 GPA.
— Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2019 -
The film chronicles the lives and loves of four slackety-slack-slack-slackers in early-nineties Houston.
— Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2018 -
Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
— Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023 -
Your tights, your shirts, your sports bras: all pathetic slackers!
— Peter Rubin, WIRED, 24 June 2019 -
His version of fatherhood manages to stand out in the sea of slacker sitcom dads.
— Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2019 -
Still, the Honda Pilot, newly designed for 2023, is far from a slacker.
— James Raia, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024 -
But her slacker-ish mother turns out to be reliable and wise when called upon.
— Clare McHugh, Time, 5 Apr. 2018 -
In his one tough scene as a slacker who turns the tables on Allison, Alex Wolff is terrific.
— Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023 -
My Name is Earl (Hulu) A slacker wins the the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization.
— Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 19 Mar. 2020 -
And here in Boston, no one’s ever accused us of being slackers.
— Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020 -
The 24-year-old man born Austin Richard Post kept that audience in the palm of his hand throughout the show, which radiated with his goofy slacker charm.
— Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019 -
Beavis and Butt-Head, the ultimate slacker critics, are returning and ready to drop some fiery hot takes on all the biggest pop stars of the day.
— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Once again, one man’s superhuman effort wasn’t enough to lift up eight other slackers.
— Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024 -
In the 1990s, the company began marketing the drink to Gen Xers, back when the members of my generation were considered slackers and outsiders.
— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 July 2024
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