Examples of indolence in a Sentence
a general feeling of indolence usually overtakes them during summer vacation
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The rapid growth of AI data centers is simply forcing us to reckon with many years of indolence.
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Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Part of his great accomplishment was to take the European aesthetic of beauty and redefine it for the South, with its heat and its billboards, its indolence and humor and thick nights.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
The Johnson Administration said the AFDC rewarded indolence, and condoned non-marital child bearing.
—Stephanie Land, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
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Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Part of his great accomplishment was to take the European aesthetic of beauty and redefine it for the South, with its heat and its billboards, its indolence and humor and thick nights.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
The Johnson Administration said the AFDC rewarded indolence, and condoned non-marital child bearing.
—Stephanie Land, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Indolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolence. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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indolence
noun
in·do·lence
ˈin-də-lən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being indolent : laziness
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