Example Sentences

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Occasionally a girl will indolently stretch out her leg, or touch her hair with a slow, formalized gesture.

From Time Magazine Archive

It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each lies on the sand, one knee indolently flexed, on a blanket whose color has been drained by the sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

He failed to stamp out corruption, stood indolently by while food prices soared.

From Time Magazine Archive

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer