How to Use slacker in a Sentence

slacker

noun

• The people I work with are a bunch of slackers.
• The first one that often comes to mind is slacking off or slackers.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 26 June 2017
• One tester has been noise-free and one degree slacker for nearly a year.
  — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• Each, in their way, is ambitious — no room for slackers here!
  — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
• Samberg plays a slacker stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive the same day over and over.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• The story of three slackers who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 20 Apr. 2020
• Reynolds has nothing but love for his time as slacker med student Berg.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 July 2024
• But no real slacker ever got a degree.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
• But her slacker-ish mother turns out to be reliable and wise when called upon.
  — Clare McHugh, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• In some circles, a researcher who was always out of the door at 5 pm would be seen as a slacker.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2016
• Introduce him to your slacker 37-year-old who still lives at home 6.
  — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2021
• But use it to identify slackers, not cap the rockstars who didn’t need it anyway.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Its name is derived from the regional Visayan slang word for slacker.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 29 July 2024
• Plus, the slacker peaches finally get to work.
  — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 11 May 2026
• Boomers saw Gen Xers, that’s me, as cynical slackers.
  — Harvard Business Review, 30 Dec. 2025
• His version of fatherhood manages to stand out in the sea of slacker sitcom dads.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 June 2019
• The most compelling evidence to debunk the myth that parents are slackers comes from a work team study.
  — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
• Now, Elvis Costello has pulled off something to make even a stunt like that seem like the stuff of slackers.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• It should be noted that Paul Cummins is no slacker himself.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
• And here in Boston, no one’s ever accused us of being slackers.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
  — Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
• Then there’s the other thing of failure to launch, that millennials are slackers.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2016
• These are not bored slackers experimenting for fun.
  — Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• At one point a trio of good-natured twenty-something slackers set up camp about 10 yards away from her little crew.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• Harris is with the team all season at home and on the road (though the slacker insists on time off occasionally.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• The band continues to balance sharp smarts with a sonic hint of slacker slouch and just the right calibration on sneer.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• The film chronicles the lives and loves of four slackety-slack-slack-slackers in early-nineties Houston.
  — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2018
• However, there is a point at which bikes can’t get any longer or slacker (Grim Donut excluded).
  — Mike Kazimer, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2022
• More confusing still is why Wenwu’s slacker son, using rings for the first time, should turn out to be more skilled than his father.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Aug. 2021
• And Barnett and Vile neatly pull off that trick on their dual tour simply by staying true to their slacker selves.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017