slouching

present participle of slouch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slouching
Verb
  • Since the deal closed in 2015, Kraft Heinz shares had tumbled nearly 70% as of Friday's close, dragging the company's market value down to $33 billion.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Nvidia fell roughly 2%, dragging the market lower.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The centipede the Redditor found crawling in her bed.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • My death was supposed to be crawling up inside of the locker that the cat used to go in.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With trigger-warning culture on the wane and a brutish permissiveness creeping back into society, corporate scolds have lost much of their power.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The three actors were filming a lighthearted scene, shuffling excitedly between a hot sauna and cold plunge, when Reeves’ foot caught on some flooring.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The film essentially takes place entirely within an under-20-minute timeline, showing the same events from a shuffling deck of points of view.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gavras, working from a script he co-wrote with Pulitzer-finalist playwright Will Arbery, seems to be poking fun at the vacuous postures of the oligarch class, just as Ruben Östlund and many other filmmakers have in recent years.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • New Bayern Munich signing Luis Díaz strolled down the left flank before cutting inside and poking a cross along the six-yard line.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Slouching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slouching. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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