Example sentences for: slack-jawed

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

  • As Lamar stares, slack-jawed, at the display case, the Butter Cow Lady herself is inside of it, applying more Land O'Lakes to the left shoulder of an apostle who might be Judas.

  • In one view, loutish slack-jawed children, admitted to college only so the bursar can suck money out of their rich alumni parents, cheat their way through class and, if that doesn't get them good enough grades, bully their professors into upping their marks.

  • Nemesis Hunt refutes the slack-jawed Novak, with the computation that 5 + 4 = 9 and therefore half of Starr's deputies are not current DOJ employees.

  • In 1962, the writer William Manchester published Portrait of a President , a book so gushing in its praise of John F. Kennedy, so slack-jawed in awe, that the White House distributed copies as souvenirs.


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