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How to use laze in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb, noun

Laze means to be lazy, waste time. Example: “The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.”

Examples of laze by meaning

verbTo be lazy, waste time.

  • “Laze my way through life.1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160

verbTo pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

  • The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
  • I'll just laze in the shade with a book.

nounAn instance of lazing.

  • I had a laze on the beach after lunch.

nounLaziness.

  • The laze is real.

nounAcidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

  • Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation

More sentences with laze

  • You're growing squab yaffling our food and then lazing in the hallway.2019, Ellie Jacobs, Workhouse Waif: A Victorian Romance. From the entry yaffle
  • The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer.2004, T R Pearson, True Cross. From the entry dandruffy
  • Ahead of them were two sun-drenched (all going well) weeks of lazing on the beach.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 61. From the entry sun-drenched
  • The objects floating in the bath and lazing about on the bathroom's floor are all monsters, teratoids dehumanized by the husking of their clothes.2002, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson, I Am a Cat, volume 2, translation of original by Natsume Soseki, →ISBN, page 345. From the entry teratoid
  • It would have value for the newt because it would presumably be a life full of newtish pleasures (lazing on rocks, sipping mosquito-flavored tropical drinks, or whatever).2013, Gregory Bassham, Jerry L. Walls, William Irwin, The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy, page 284. From the entry newtish
  • Eventually, the food was mostly gone, and two footmen arrived and carted the remnants away, leaving the company sipping wine and cider and lazing in semisomnolence in the afternoon's warmth.2020, Stephanie Laurens, The Inevitable Fall of Christopher Cynster. From the entry semisomnolence

Meaning of laze

  1. verb To be lazy, waste time.
  2. verb To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
  3. noun An instance of lazing.

Full definition of laze

Questions about laze in a sentence

How do you use laze in a sentence?
Laze is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.”
What is a short sentence with laze?
“The laze is real.”
What does laze mean?
Laze means to be lazy, waste time.

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