Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugabed
Noun
  • When Dina refuses an anesthetic slug of alcohol during the proceedings, Jesse gets the wind up.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025
  • Rather than look to slug, Mookie Betts lifted a fly ball deep enough to advance Edman to third.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Ukraine’s operation followed a Russian attack overnight Saturday that involved 472 drones – Moscow’s largest drone attack since the war began.
    Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
  • In what a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told ABC News was an operation one and a half years in the making, operatives used attack drones concealed in containers carried by trucks to attack strategic bomber bases deep inside Russian territory.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • These capuchins have figured out how to use stones to crack open mollusks, snails and other edible treats that have hard shells.
    Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Some of the snails the DOC cares for are around 25 to 30 years old, the release said.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • That’s a very different proposition being offered than the one that existed when a couch potato could only see their favorite episodes once or twice a year on the linear schedule.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 May 2025
  • The wellness trend is a commitment to refocus our daily routines and habits before the first of the year, which enables us to lock in a healthy lifestyle and beat the temptation to eat more, be a couch potato and lax mental wellness during the cold winter months.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
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“Slugabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugabed. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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