Example Sentences
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Slouching was strictly forbidden, as was standing with their feet spread apart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Slouching on a couch, Hesme cuts a grave figure as she rewinds a video: the message Hamlet receives from her murdered father, here projected on a large scrim.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024
The inspiration arrived courtesy of Joan Didion's collection of essays, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem."
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2022
In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, she wrote of its significance not just to her, but to California.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021
Slouching beside my small marble-topped table was a type I knew well.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
