How to Use lazy in a Sentence

lazy

adjective

• I should have done more work this weekend, but I was feeling lazy.
• One lifts a large grate from the floor of the lazy river.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The stereotype that teens are lazy could be one of them.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 4 Jan. 2019
• Frisbee is more than a lazy game of catch on the beach.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
• Too many of the guys that have fallen by the wayside got lazy.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Texas may be a lot of things, but lazy isn't one of them.
  — Shacamree Gowdy, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2020
• The kind who think sleep is for people who are lazy or dead.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• Too lazy for all the work that comes with building your own home?
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2019
• That's where the one minute mug cakes for all us lazy dessert lovers come in.
  — Spoon U, Teen Vogue, 28 Aug. 2017
• Do not be lazy and write a letter or an email to your boss.
  — Naira Velumyan, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• Parisians used to lazy strolls on long summer nights head home.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• Pass a lazy day relaxing on the sandy beach or splashing in the waves.
  — Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2020
• There’s no reason to be lazy, for the lack of a better word.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• Without a doubt this tour of South Beach is not for the lazy.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• If that seems like a pretty lazy plot, well, that’s the whole thing.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Almost any dog can be trained to find sheds, even lazy house pets.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 5 Feb. 2020
• My time alone outdoors was filled with lazy thoughts and ramblings.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2018
• Spriggs is lazy and a dumper, and joe seems overwhelmed.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2020
• In search of an easy, healthy snack for parties, picnics and lazy days by the pool?
  — NBC News, 8 June 2019
• My mother wants to be waited on hand and foot and has become very lazy.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
• The country's southern beaches are a haven for surfers and lazy beach bums alike.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Just as notable as what's in the trailer is what isn't: lazy jokes.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2021
• But lazy ants turn around and leave right away, limiting the chances of a traffic jam.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2018
• Raitt exclaims as if anything else would be plain lazy.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2022
• Answer: lazy days and chill nights call for some cute slippers.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, seventeen.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• That line gets an easy laugh, though Mamet’s script isn’t lazy.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• That there didn’t seem to be any notion of slowing down and getting lazy.
  — The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2022
• And then, of course, I get accused of being lazy and stupid.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
• If only a few kids are not ready, then that means our kids were lazy and did not do their job.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 9 May 2020
• Of course, the Twins’ pitching chipped in by being bad, and even lazy.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024