Sentence Examples:
Panting and spent, he lay along the edge of the wheat, with closed eyelids and lax muscles.
McPherson's, he commended Whitby's Commentary, and said, he had heard him called rather lax; but he did not perceive it.
Link Stevens appeared suddenly to grow lax, shriveled, to lose all his peculiar pert brightness, to weaken and age.
I perceive I am lax and flabby, unguarded, I funk too much, I eat too much, and I drink too much.
All definitions of the same thing must be nearly the same; and descriptions, which are definitions of a more lax and fanciful kind, must always have in some degree that resemblance to each other which they all have to their object.
Indeed, judged by the lax standard of those times, he might be called almost immaculate.
There is no attempt at varnishing or veneering the surface of a lax moral order.
The morality of the younger stages of life is always lax, if not licentious.
At that time, however, the Hospital was sharing the general decadence of the Order, and discipline had become very lax.
Her dress was without ornament, and in her deportment was nothing lax or feeble.
It had been torn by internal dissensions and the bonds of discipline had always been very lax.
The effect was startling, of that sleeping face, those open eyes, that lax mouth.
Her attitude had become very lax and despondent when the typewriter stopped in the next room.
"Then do you imagine that the West Point men are any more lax in their views of corps honor?"
"I have been lax in neighborly solicitude," The Laird continued.
And so, though we all use Doctor Johnson's sharply stamped coinages, we generally are too lax about visiting the mint.
Heretofore we have been wasteful and lax about the fish supply.
Father Francis, who had been sitting in a lax kind of huddle, seemed to know his thoughts, and sat up suddenly.
As he lay now, with lax hands at his side, tightening at times in an agony of remembrance, he was seeing vision after vision, turning now and again to the contemplation of a dark future without life or love or hope.
Isabel's hand lay lax in his grasp while he methodically sucked the wound and rinsed his mouth from her tumbler.
There was a certain young player who was notoriously lax in his eyesight on decisions.
The body is thin and badly nourished, and the muscular system especially poorly developed and very lax in tone.
His lax fingers crept to the butt of a Colt's revolver.
He is addressing here an esoteric circle who, if they were lax, would bring philosophy into disrepute.
There were many whose notions of honor were lax and unbecoming.
Her hand fell lax from the door jamb, and she half staggered against it for support, limp and helpless.
Half turning on the bench she gazed speculatively at the lax figure on the rug.
The sheriff lay as before, on his back, his limbs lax, his face deathly white, a bandage about his head.
Its verse is lax, and its tone somewhat immature; yet it shows a great deal of sparkling and diversified talent.
We breathe too little of the pure air; we are lax in physical effort, and, even though the individual man or woman be wise, he or she must bear the burden of the errors of an ancestry or the evils of the present.
And now the woman's life was to pay the forfeit of my lax softness.
The clergy were to be celibate and not marry, but in lax times this rule was not followed.
Sir Guy Carleton had also assured the Indians that money would be spent to give them the same position after the war that they had occupied before it, and that the government would not be lax in dealing with their needs.
For a moment body and mind alike were lax and stunned.
All the lines of this face were lax, displaying utter lassitude and no energy.
We have heretofore been too lax in this dreadful business; the powers of darkness be almost over our palisades.
To say that the discipline was lax would be to pay it an unmerited compliment.
He found that he was weaker than he had supposed but with a grunt drove his lax muscles to stiffen and obey his will.
Pasquale drew a forty-five and fired three times into the lax and huddled body.
Grandparents are inclined to be lax in their discipline.
He sank apologetically into a lax posture, even as he stood.
The ecclesiastical discipline was naturally very lax.
After puberty, the organs usually diminish in size, and become unnaturally lax and shrunken.
Discipline was lax, and many of the commanders, instead of occupying the positions assigned to them, had taken up others where better accommodation could be obtained; and much time was lost before the orders reached them.
The lady had been already selected by the predominant party, and used as an instrument in procuring the divorce of her predecessor and the fall of Cromwell; for, if her morals were something lax, Catherine Howard's orthodoxy was beyond dispute.
Finding discipline was still lax, he proceeded with paternal solemnity to administer it himself.
I loathed the lax, cheap honor of the world and its hypocrisy.
Hastily he fumbled the lax hand for a pulse.
Bart, gasping under it, heard the girl moan, saw her slump lax in her chair, half fainting.
If there is a lax method of living and conducting business, soon everything is in confusion and wretchedness.
"Maybe I am lax," he acknowledged, "but it seems to me that if you are living a decent life yourself, and giving the other fellow a square deal, you are pretty nearly fulfilling the law and the prophets."
They had left him lax and shaken and rather muddled.
Discipline on the privateers was lax, and the profits of a successful cruise were enormous.
Moreover, our boasted Protestantism is, on this subject, more lax than Roman Catholicism.
Her soft mouth was lax and tremulous, and her gray eyes were more brilliant than the star yonder.
Her mouth was tremulous and lax, and her gray eyes were more brilliant than the star yonder.
He shoved a crumpled card into my lax fingers.
What more defiled or more impious than these lax rituals?
Their bodies were so lax that their short weekly promenade to the cemetery exhausted them.
It had properly vindicated itself of the charge that western society was lax in such matters.
The College once started and got under way, the fathers of the Province assumed a vigilant oversight of its orthodoxy, but discharged with a lax and grudging service the responsibility of its maintenance.
She thinks I'm very lax in my duty to allow you on the street without a chaperone.
No one who has followed the domestic difficulties due to our neglect of the warnings of scientific men can fail to see how we have had to suffer because of the lax conduct of those responsible for these things in the past.
The leaves, so soft and fresh in the early morn, now become lax and drooping.
He was justly scornful of the lax distribution of honors which had marked all the Stuart reigns.
You are lax in the wrong place, and scrupulous in the wrong place.
Tortured by remorse, and by disease the effect of remorse, he had quitted the Court; but he had left behind him men whose principles were not less lax than his, and whose hearts were far harder and colder.
It is sufficiently lax to permit considerable movement of the mucous membrane on the muscular coat beneath it.
When the skin is pale, lax, and wrinkled, astringent washes may be used.
He illustrated these truths by a reference to the Seventh Commandment, and insisted that adultery did not lose its sinful character because of any interpretation of the Law such as was put upon it by those who were teaching lax theories of divorce.
No doubt the old soldier frequently remonstrated with him for his indulgence in idle pleasures and lax ideas of duty.
This is the worst bit; but they could do it, I feel sure, if our sentries were lax.
And then, there was a certain relaxation in the lines of Preston's figure impossible to describe, stiff and motionless though he was; something which prepared one for a lax and careless movement when he moved.
He had been left in charge of Charlie, and the child had eluded his somewhat lax guardianship and run away.
This condition is usually met with in young women, and, in some cases at least, appears to be due to too early and too free movement of the joint after an ordinary dislocation, so that the capsule is stretched and remains lax.
Once, in talking to a group of women, I asserted that a wife should exact of her husband as high a tone of morality as of her lover, that she should not allow him to become lax in his conversation with her any more than with any other woman.
I hope you are not a lax disciplinarian; that comes of being young.
The vacancies, however, were filled up by volunteers from among the prisoners he took, and these men made admirable fighting soldiers, though they had of course somewhat lax notions on the subject of discipline.
For she had never known it in her life, all her surroundings had been loose, lax, disordered, a welter.
The instinct of self-preservation had gone lax.
I know the mothers should do it, but many mothers are ignorant, foolish, lax, and certainly untrained.
The canon was fluctuating, and the practice of the churches in regard to it somewhat lax.
The discontent was aggravated by lax and corrupt methods of administration as well as by financial difficulties.
After tea Shirley reads, and she is just about as tenacious of her book as she is lax of her needle.
The fact that one cord is slightly lax while the other vibrates at full tension along its face causes trouble.
Your expendable supplies items accounting seems to be lax, if not outright careless.
And it was always the same thing: Althea sitting in her clean kitchen, by her clean table, with a bowl or a pan or what not in her lap, her yellowish hands lax, her knees as still as marble, her eyes set ahead of her, thinking, thinking, thinking.
Bergson would probably avow, though he is lax enough to delimit science at times in his dialectic.
They also blame lax parental control, but the surveys concluded that the influence of contemporary social habits and the pressures of peer groups were forces more powerful than those exerted by the family.
He saw no sign of sentry and wondered why they should be so lax in the face of almost certain attack.
He displayed very lax morals and an apathy which displeased his staff and partisans.
The terrible grip of the folds relaxed, and the threatening head drooped lax and powerless.
Parents are woefully lax in their condemnation and punishment of the sin of stealing.
He was plainly amazed to find a pretty girl at his door, and for a moment fairly gaped with lax jaws.
The townspeople came forth yawning and lax, and went about their duties mechanically.
His shoulders heaved once or twice, his arms fell lax.
His looks had strikingly improved, for now that the soft beard, which had never known a razor, was dry, it peaked forward a little, whereas when wet it had clung to his too narrow jaw and revealed a lax line of chin.
As all the cadets had not yet arrived discipline was rather lax, and the officers made no objection.
Next day, both corpses are remarkably lax; the segments of the abdomen separate and gape at the least touch.
Hangar Control was getting lax about security in these waning days before the big test.