Example sentences for: laggard

How can you use “laggard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At first the English were content with unalloyed borrowings, but then began tacking the invidious -ard onto purely English words, producing the likes of drunkard, laggard , and sluggard .

  • Unless you're a hardcore gamer, you may not know that today saw the debut of Sega's Dreamcast video-game console, the first 128-bit system ever (that means it's really fast) and the last hope for a corporation that has gone from having one of the strongest brands in the world to having the words "laggard" and "also-ran" permanently affixed to its name.

  • J. Edgar Hoover despised King, whom he genuinely believed to be a Communist and further resented for assailing the bureau's sometimes laggard enforcement of justice in the lawless South.

  • UNABBREVIATED antimissile laggard SHORTENINGS (6) antirheu- lagger detox, v. matic, adj.

  • Because the sports landscape has already changed whether some laggard sports editors fail to staff something like the World Cup games.


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