Example sentences for: loath

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

  • In its editorial advocating that the DOJ and FBI abandon their current policy against the use of computer encryption technology the feds are not at least indirectly privy to, the NYT explains President Clinton's failure to oppose this law enforcement stance thusly: "[S]ince Attorney General Janet Reno has protected Mr. Clinton from an independent counsel on campaign finance, the White House is said to be loath to oppose either her or Louis Freeh, the F.B.I.

  • Almanzo Wilder, 9, is loath to go to school because he hates watching the school's five toughest teens beat up yet another teacher and drive him out of town.

  • We, the American public, tireless in our pursuit of the costless benefit, loath to accept the randomly aimed slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, ever ready to shift the blame for our own laziness or carelessness to someone else--preferably someone with deep pockets.

  • Nothing loath, we loaded it into the computer for a run.

  • China could never trump the warhead blizzard Washington would send in retaliation against any atomic attack, though the country would be loath to cede to U.S. missile defenses the deterrence afforded by its handfuls of warheads.


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