Example Sentences

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Employees have enough stresses right now without employers suddenly treating them as sluggards who will slack off at the earliest opportunity.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2020

The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The tide will slack some. You can ground...The tide will slack some.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

"There is a village a couple of miles below," said the officer, "and if you will slack up a little, I will run ahead and have all you need by the time you come opposite."

From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul

Then it will slack up, and just when you're thinking it's all gone it will come back worse than ever.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John