Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugabed
Noun
  • Snails can look like little elephants, slugs can look like fish, and worms can look like swimming chandeliers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The reflective foil discourages unwanted insects and pests like slugs from approaching and harming the plants, but actually helps to attract butterflies.
    Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In military settings, electronic warfare (EW) units use powerful transmitters to broadcast noise or false signals on the same frequencies, overwhelming or confusing the drone’s receiver.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • On September 24, airports in Denmark and Norway were closed after drones appeared in the sky.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many springs feature a visible boil at the water surface above the spring vent, crystal clear water, submerged grasses waving in the current, and a range of fish, turtles, snails and other aquatic animals hiding in the grasses.
    Christopher F. Meindl, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In our lives how many things are like the snail, never thought of?
    Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The pleasures of being a couch potato.
    Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Long-form reading then becomes as hard as pushups for a couch potato.
    Doug McIntyre, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
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“Slugabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugabed. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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