How to Use lax in a Sentence

lax

adjective

• The university has been lax about enforcing these rules.
• And the southwest part of the state doesn’t even meet the more lax 2008 standards.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
• The doll was long all over; its neck was lax and long and boneless.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• O’Rourke blames both the skill of the craftsmen and the lax oversight of the codes for the continued problem.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
• States with lax gun controls have some of the highest gun death rates.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• When this happens, the skin can become lax, wrinkled, and shiny.
  — Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2023
• The White House has long bristled at the idea that border enforcement is lax.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Stafff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2023
• With a steady flow of weapons smuggled from the United States, where gun purchase laws are more lax, the gangs outgun the Celaya police.
  — Oscar Lopez, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• This five-year timeline is far shorter than the long-standing rule of 25 years, which some critics said was too lax.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• In this new phase of hybrid work, where many have fallen into lax habits, the rules of meetings keep changing.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Tennessee’s lax gun laws set a low bar Tennessee has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• Still, oversight of Ready to Work by the City Council has been relatively lax.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2022
• Twitter’s more lax rules come as more states legalize cannabis sales.
  — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• But the rules were lax: The guard could hang as much as 30 inches off the ground, far higher than the typical car bumper, and didn’t have to cover the full width of the truck or trailer.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
• In this week’s report, the inspector general pinned the blame on lax safeguards at SBA.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 June 2023
• The daughter was not at the court hearing, but the teen's father Jim Dixon was and said he was disappointed in the lax sentencing.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• Oversight is a little lax, and the working conditions are not the optimal ones ...
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• Jones and Pearson were protesting against Tennessee's lax gun laws.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• They’re often procured through straw men in states with lax gun laws and then trafficked illegally to the country.
  — Widlore Mérancourt, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• This has led to criticism by some that FTC enforcement has become lax.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
• The Publix spokesperson did not respond to a question from the Times about whether that hometown vibe may have made some customers feel the rules were lax and dogs would be welcome.
  — Sue Carlton Tampa Bay Times (tns), al, 18 Aug. 2023
• But observers have asked if warning signs were missed by the authorizer in this case, and if the state is too lax on the authorizers themselves.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey and Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• On social media, Democrats laid blame for Saturday’s shooting on lax state gun laws.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
• Under Stitt, Oklahoma had some of the most lax pandemic restrictions in the country.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 1 Nov. 2022
• The industries that sprang up around Africatown in the 20th century, which have gone out of their way to pursue the most lax zoning laws possible, are the direct fruit of that lineage.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
• For an informal look, try Raydon’s Favorite, which has a lax, tall, arching growth habit and vivid blue autumn flowers.
  — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Local officials have struggled to come up with solutions in the face of a lack of action from the federal government and lax state gun laws.
  — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• The shooting has focused attention on gun laws in Tennessee, which gun-control advocates say are among the most lax in the country.
  — Robert Klemko, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Guns used in Chicago often come from nearby Wisconsin and Indiana, where gun laws are far more lax.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• In doing so, the operation was piling up even more waste, and government oversight was lax.
  — Lynsey Chutel Ilan Godfrey, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024