Examples of “sloth” in a Sentence

noun Laziness or a strong reluctance to make an effort.

• Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins in many old stories.
• Years of sloth left his room messy and his homework unfinished.
• His sloth kept him from ever finishing the project.

noun A slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammal native to Central and South America.

• At the zoo, we watched a sloth slowly climb a tree.
• A sloth can spend most of the day sleeping in the rainforest.
• The sloth hung upside down from a branch, barely moving.