Sentence Examples:
The room was too hot, the chairs were too soft, the moral atmosphere too lax.
The grip on her throat grew lax, the hands left it free.
The constitution of their league appears to have been very lax.
Now these quotations are notoriously lax.
Most of these appear to have been petty affairs; but they denote a lax state of society.
The evils of a lax society have been rebuked in various ways.
Until that was settled he was lax and exposed to every passing breeze of invitation.
The wolf was gone; Ben's guard of her was ever more lax.
Editors have grown very much too lax in this respect.
His hand was warm and lax.
Doubtless the divorce laws in many States are too lax.
The tense hands went lax.
It lay lax under the sheltering hand.
In the main, lax habits grow from surroundings and association.
It was an era of lax ideas regarding the marriage tie.
The sentence structure, as in the dramas, is often intricate, but never lax.
The junior Bar is growing somewhat lax in these matters.
Your figure has grown lax, your voice a little weary.
As long as laws are lax, even law-abiding people will take advantage of them.
They kept lax watch, because they had no foe to dread.
The old clerk was in a lax vacation mood, and the envoy returned key in hand.
Indeed, I was able to say that I knew Jesuits who were as severe as these were lax.
Unfortunately, courts frequently are lax in determining this question.
You are crossing a threshold into a peculiarly lax section and age of woman.
At one instant he was furious with pain, at the next broken and lax from the same cause.
She grew lax, gross in habit and mind, self-indulgent, and ill-tempered.
He had gained considerable "inside knowledge" of the company's lax business methods.
He admitted that lately he had been lax in his spiritual duties.
The discipline was lax, and indeed could not be otherwise.
He is so lax about Dissent, as if right and wrong were mere matters of opinion!
"Two," and only their eyes showed that every lax muscle in each body grew taut.
It is said to die after flowering: the natives use the central lax structures as food.
The girl shook off his lax grip on her arms ... the sheriff's son was holding her legs.
It was that I disrupted their classes and made for lax discipline.
He might be a lax mayor, too good-natured to uphold law in a wild country.
"As it was the last night out they may have been pretty lax in that direction."
You haven't been saved, you see, and you're still lax about these things.
The great majority of the houses were not under lax control.
The business of the department was lax.
The state of morals in these parts is in some sort lax.
Our Hush-hush Department seems to have grown very lax of late.
The passports for the lax are beyond my arithmetic.
It is much easier for a man to become lax in his conduct there than in actual fighting.
He lay upon his face, as lax and motionless as a piece of inanimate matter.
Merton congratulated him; the age was lax, he said, and principle was needed.
He promptly sent out a decree against the new doctrine of what he called "lax manners."
Its constitution tends to be lax and its functions vague.
It was a long lax line of men in open order.
The muscles of the abdomen must remain lax and quiet.
I saw her fingers lax, and change their hue.
I am no defender of those lax property laws.
I was "difficult," not because I was stiff but because I was lax.
He made it clear that they were not to be lax in their vigilance.
And the hand of the Chief Ranger, hanging lax at his side, suddenly balled into a fist.
He walked with his two arms lax at his sides.
Max knelt and took the lax hand and kissed it.
Not a muscle of his lax body had grown more taut.
They must not be lax in this matter; they must not be inefficient.
I've been too lax in the past, in not referring to the records.
Discipline had grown lax in Milly's absence.
He was not lax, and ruled his family well.
It had nothing to do with the lax grace of the officer's figure.
The discipline of our palace is somewhat lax.
He never abandoned his surveillance, and you are too lax in this.
I didn't know it gave his like, in these lax days.
During his enforced absence from them, discipline was sure to grow lax.
Both men became lax and plunged, and separated.
"I guess maybe I have been lax," he said softly.
As the guard is very lax at that time, it is the best time for the attempt.
He became lax in his attendance at the synagogue, incurring the reproach of the family.
With reference to their morals, strictly speaking they are markedly lax.
She noticed nothing of him or his doings, lay lax in his arms.
Such lax attention we can ill afford.
It was now hanging down on one side, quite lax.
At times cold sweat stood on his temples and he trembled, with every muscle lax and inert.
And he sat in the garden thinking to himself, had he been lax to Uncle Robin in any way?
He is lax for the sake of others, not of himself.
Steve's muscle relaxed slowly; he resumed his former lax attitude and fell to thinking.
His breath was gone and his empty left hand, gracefully lax, lay at his side.
Discipline was lax in those days, but we were all the better for it.
In the enforcement of his rules, he was at times rigid, and at times lax.
The pretty butterfly pin slipped from her lax fingers and Marjorie burst into tears.
As regards his private character, his notions of honesty and of truth are lax.
The tone of that society was not a little lax.
Manning really loved her sister, although she considered her very lax and extravagant.
I know your mother thought us rather lax.
"Ah, my mother was not lax."
The admission of goods liable to customs had been lax.
Your lax friend was one of them.
Are we bound by their lax ways in Italy?
Their ministers preached, too often, a mere technical divinity, or a lax system of ethics.
And so, not content to give that system a longer trial, he grew more lax in his work.
See to it his sector men weren't getting lax.
Possibly it was not that the Germans were too severe, but that we were too lax.
He allowed the discipline of his army to become lax.
It did not matter much that the tone of her salon was lax; it was fashionable.
During the second night he felt his soul suddenly become incoherent, lax.
He had grown somewhat lax through the long march.