Example sentences for: do-nothing

How can you use “do-nothing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Reagan denounced the bureaucrat as a do-nothing and a loser, and celebrated the entrepreneur as one of the highest embodiments of American creativity and possibility.

  • A Post editorial calls the House move impressive because it occurred over the opposition of the House Republican leadership, and challenges the "do-nothing" Senate to pass the bill.

  • Although conservatives who inveigh against overpaid, do-nothing federal bureaucrats probably have in mind the Department of Health and Human Services, if your urgent need is a government job in general, rather than anything in particular that job might accomplish, apparently the Pentagon is your best shot.

  • Who wanted to talk with those do-nothing, pill-pushing, pointy heads anyway?

  • And Democrats, who want to run against the do-nothing Republicans in 2000, are happy to stall major legislation.


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