Wondering how to use Sloth in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as slothfulness or acedia.
Sloth in a sentence
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Sloth meaning
- Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- Any animal in the suborder Folivora.
- Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
Synonyms of Sloth
Using Sloth
- The main meaning on this page is: Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour. | Any animal in the suborder Folivora. | Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- Useful related words include: slothfulness, mortal sin, acedia, laziness.
- In the example corpus, sloth often appears in combinations such as: the sloth, sloth bear, of sloth.
Context around Sloth
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sloth
- In this selection, "sloth" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, toed, specific, loving, chosen, biologists and chocolate stand out and add context to how "sloth" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about a sloth that goes and added that sloth babies are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sloth" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sloth
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wicket the two-toed sloth was born Jan. (8 words)
That includes Malayan tigers, Komodo dragons and sloth bears. (9 words)
And sometimes we do seem to overcome the allure of indulgence or sloth. (13 words)
Ms Heldt added that sloth babies are “very strong” when they are born and they usually cling to their mothers until they are at least 12-months old in order to develop their muscles so they can swing from tree to tree. (42 words)
Tortuguero National Park – the name Tortuguero can be translated as "Full of Turtles" – is home to spider, howler, and white-throated capuchin monkeys; the three-toed sloth and two-toed sloth ; 320 species of birds; and a variety of reptiles. (40 words)
While the state and habit of sloth is a mortal sin, the habit of the soul tending towards the last mortal state of sloth is not mortal in and of itself except under certain circumstances. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The specific sloth chosen resides in tip-top shape at the Natuwa Sanctuary in Puntarenas, selected after consultation between Frontier, the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT), and sloth biologists in 2022.
The supermarket is selling a "Sonny the Sloth" chocolate lolly, a hollow figure, plus a sloth-themed Easter egg complete with cuddly toy.
Tortuguero National Park – the name Tortuguero can be translated as "Full of Turtles" – is home to spider, howler, and white-throated capuchin monkeys; the three-toed sloth and two-toed sloth ; 320 species of birds; and a variety of reptiles.
While the state and habit of sloth is a mortal sin, the habit of the soul tending towards the last mortal state of sloth is not mortal in and of itself except under certain circumstances.
And sometimes we do seem to overcome the allure of indulgence or sloth.
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He didn’t want some kind of duvet-loving sloth with a crisp addiction.
Her daughters Emmy and Matilda paid close attention to the racing exploits of the not so speedy but very determined heroine of the story Spike the Sloth, reported branch librarian Bronwyn Clark.
In the book, the sloth lives an existence that is truly its own.
Ms Heldt added that sloth babies are “very strong” when they are born and they usually cling to their mothers until they are at least 12-months old in order to develop their muscles so they can swing from tree to tree.
One of his favorites is “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” said the Sloth, by Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillaris all about owning who you are and navigating the perceptions of others.
Sloth's willingness to give up was reflected in his fight against Armstrong, where it only took a few well-aimed punches to defeat him permanently.
So far, 2023 is shaping up as another year of booming profits for the Alberta oilpatch and another year of industry sloth in making a start on its promised reductions of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
That includes Malayan tigers, Komodo dragons and sloth bears.
The sloth’s curved claws, which can be up to four inches long, are perfectly designed for this arboreal lifestyle.
They don't do that because of their aforementioned sloth and because they know the overwhelming majority of Fort Bragg people, recognizing phonies when they move into town, would slam dunk the Name Changers.
Wicket the two-toed sloth was born Jan.
Forest Department staff with sloth bear attack victim Amar Oran at the Government Hospital, Valparai, on Sunday.
Paleontologist Thaís Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, on July 11, 2024.
Pattern of spots on the insect's wings is a characteristic nature of midges and mosquitos that carry 'sloth virus'.
Common combinations with sloth
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sloth 13×
- sloth bear 7×
- of sloth 5×
- and sloth 4×
- sloth and 4×
- sloth is 4×
- three-toed sloth 2×
- two-toed sloth 2×
- or sloth 2×
- sloth bears 2×