How to Use sloth in a Sentence

sloth

noun

• The man told the child not to worry as the sloth moved slowly down the line.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• Lightning, the sloth, would have been a first time mom.
  — Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2021
• But if none of that matters to you, this might: sloths.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 4 Mar. 2020
• Crabs clung to bull kelp stipes — stems — like sloths to a jungle vine.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• After a rain, the anomalies turned out to be sloth tracks.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2019
• Moe was orphaned in the wild as a young sloth and has been in Cincinnati since 2006.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
• Meet, pet and take pictures with Flash, the baby sloth.
  — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The sloth is one of the slowest animals in the world, coming in just ahead of snails.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2022
• Who knew that sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes?
  — SELF, 18 Sep. 2019
• But a sloth has not been born at the zoo since 1984, and staff are eager for some babies.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• Since then, the zoo has had aardvarks, sloths, meerkats, manatees and more on the show.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• Or dealing with the Six Deadly Sins after sloth gets the ax.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 June 2022
• Ousland climbed the stairs from the ice to Lance at a sloth’s pace (and would later fall descending the stairs from the bridge).
  — Adventure, 23 Dec. 2020
• Who hasn’t felt like a sloth in the morning before their first cup of coffee?
  — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
• Lightning the sloth has no more need to cuddle with a little, plushie sloth.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
• The Judeo-Christian scriptures warn us to avoid gluttony and sloth.
  — Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 17 Apr. 2021
• For all her work on stage and screen, Kristen Bell might best be known as the woman who cried over a sloth.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• For those a bit rusty, those sins would be: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Millenia ago, giant sloths used to spread Joshua tree seeds for miles.
  — Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• That growth can make the sloths appear green, which helps to camouflage them in the rain forest canopy.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2020
• But then — the visceral feeling in my chest as the sloth saw her baby!
  — Meaghan O’Connell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Prints left by a sloth suggest the animal was aware of the humans who had passed the same way before it.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
• The sloth bear’s name comes from the resemblance to the 3-toed sloth and their ability to hang upside down from tree limbs.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• Riffs on gluttony, pride and sloth would have wide windows in a disused space two blocks away.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• And having the robot look like a sloth certainly cannot hurt.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The baby sloth was born on Jan. 26 to parents Charlotte and Elliot.
  — Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2023
• Can Big Pharma cure your sloth, lust, wrath, envy, pride?
  — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
• This cute ceramic mug with a matte finish will put a smile on your face—just like the sloth.
  — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
• Kelly-McClish worked with eagles, hawks, anteaters, sloths and a chameleon.
  — Stephen Ruiz, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Once the mother and baby reach Teddy, the little sloth leans over and sniffs its father.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024