Sentence examples for in a slack from inspiring English sources

Giraffes stride through it with the motion of seaweed in a slack tide.

In fact, several economists have suggested that the fiscal package would be most potent in a slack economy.

Morales loves sports, and continues to play racquetball and soccer, although he carries himself in a slack, shoulders-forward posture that gives no hint of physicality.

Its benefits — creating jobs and income that prevent a self-perpetuating downward spiral in a slack economy — are not benefits associated with private borrowing.

The study concluded, "Fiscal adjustments beginning in a slack economy (like the current situation in the United States) appear to have a low probability of success".

Consumer demand in the United States appeared weaker, resulting in a slack growth of less than 1 percent for non-pharmaceutical consumer products.

It is a wondrous truth, in a slack-jawed way.

And then, since it was still only seven-thirty and he wasn't due onstage until ten, Rickles sat down in front of a large flat-screen TV and began to grimace, in a slack-jawed, masculine fashion, at a football game.

In the video, an assortment of hip-hop royalty gives "the gas face" (a maneuver that involves shaking your face in a slack-jawed manner, while moaning) to Adolf Hitler, the South African President P. W. Botha, and the mainstream rapper MC Hammer.

The roommate, perhaps also uneasy, snapped the moment up; the red ball hangs there forever, blurred, in the amber slant of the dying light, while the yellow and green glint in Richard's hands and his face concentrates upward in a slack-jawed ecstasy.

While employers are less likely to call back those unemployed for a longer spell, the stigmatizing effect of a long unemployment spell is weaker in a slacker labor market.