Examples of indolence in a Sentence
a general feeling of indolence usually overtakes them during summer vacation
Recent Examples on the Web
The real killer is our indolence.
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Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2013
On the right, cash payments are seen to promote indolence and inflation.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
For some, the notion of an isolated, utterly private Caribbean atoll may conjure up fantasies of tropical indolence — chaise longues on a white-sand beach, umbrella drinks and perhaps a paperback.
—Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
Choni vividly realized the mix of perfumed indolence and frenzy in Scriabin’s Fourth Sonata.
—Dallas News, 13 June 2022
The book’s most prominent theme is that the societal pathologies Mr. Vance witnessed in Middletown—alcoholism, indolence, opioid addiction—are not, or at least not primarily, the result of declining economic opportunity.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
In Afghanistan, fashion, with its low barriers to entry, is not so much a symbol of self-indulgent indolence as a lever of advancement.
—New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
Sullivan, a pipeline worker, has been jobless for more than a year but argued the payments would increase the national debt and reward indolence.
—The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2021
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Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2013
On the right, cash payments are seen to promote indolence and inflation.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
For some, the notion of an isolated, utterly private Caribbean atoll may conjure up fantasies of tropical indolence — chaise longues on a white-sand beach, umbrella drinks and perhaps a paperback.
—Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
Choni vividly realized the mix of perfumed indolence and frenzy in Scriabin’s Fourth Sonata.
—Dallas News, 13 June 2022
The book’s most prominent theme is that the societal pathologies Mr. Vance witnessed in Middletown—alcoholism, indolence, opioid addiction—are not, or at least not primarily, the result of declining economic opportunity.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
In Afghanistan, fashion, with its low barriers to entry, is not so much a symbol of self-indulgent indolence as a lever of advancement.
—New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
Sullivan, a pipeline worker, has been jobless for more than a year but argued the payments would increase the national debt and reward indolence.
—The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2021
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First Known Use
1710, in the meaning defined above
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“Indolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolence. Accessed 28 Sep. 2023.
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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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