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.

  • Ever since Harry Truman mocked the "do-nothing Congress," our nation's representatives have been sensitive to charges that their time is spent only in pandering, politicking, and pot thumping.

  • "We get to talking about the do-nothing Congress as a bad thing, but look at the alternatives," says Republican Carol Cox Wait, president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget.

  • The NYT piece frames this as do-nothing action, designed to temporarily quiet demands coming simultaneously from the Israeli right-wing, Palestinians, and the U.S. (which is pressing Netanyahu to cede land quickly).

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


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