Example sentences for: lax

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

  • Al Qaeda also exploited relatively lax internal security environments in Western countries, especially Germany.

  • Lax passport issuance standards are among the vulnerabilities exploited by terrorists, possibly including two of the 9/11 hijackers.

  • Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.

  • But in the Times , columnist Simon Jenkins said that "Britain's gun control is about as lax as America's, at least on the non-domestic front."

  • But I was disturbed that the transferring hospital was so thorough with tests and so lax with basic care.


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