On this page you'll find 7 example sentences with Laxness. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as laxity or slackness and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Laxness in a sentence
Laxness meaning
The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
Using Laxness
- The main meaning on this page is: The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
- Useful related words include: laxity, remissness, slackness, negligence.
- In the example corpus, laxness often appears in combinations such as: laxness was.
Context around Laxness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Laxness
- In this selection, "laxness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bureaucratic, halldor, surname and prevents stand out and add context to how "laxness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and bureaucratic laxness prevents background and by halldor laxness and has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "laxness" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with laxness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Laxness was awarded the Sonning Prize in 1969. (8 words)
And a social passion underlies everything Halldór Laxness has written. (10 words)
Health privacy laws and bureaucratic laxness prevents background checks for firearms buyers from reporting mental illness. (16 words)
Following his confirmation, he adopted the surname Laxness after the homestead on which he was raised and added the name Kiljan (the Icelandic name of Irish martyr Saint Killian ). (29 words)
Later years In the 1960s Laxness was very active in the Icelandic theatre, writing and producing plays, The Pigeon Banquet (Dúfnaveislan, 1966) was the most successful. (26 words)
She launched our friendship with “Independent People,” by Halldor Laxness, and has continued to give me my favorite book of nearly every year since. (24 words)
Example sentences (7)
Health privacy laws and bureaucratic laxness prevents background checks for firearms buyers from reporting mental illness.
She launched our friendship with “Independent People,” by Halldor Laxness, and has continued to give me my favorite book of nearly every year since.
And a social passion underlies everything Halldór Laxness has written.
Following his confirmation, he adopted the surname Laxness after the homestead on which he was raised and added the name Kiljan (the Icelandic name of Irish martyr Saint Killian ).
Hallberg, p.125 Laxness also traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote approvingly of the Soviet system and culture.
Later years In the 1960s Laxness was very active in the Icelandic theatre, writing and producing plays, The Pigeon Banquet (Dúfnaveislan, 1966) was the most successful.
Laxness was awarded the Sonning Prize in 1969.
Common combinations with laxness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: