How to Use laze in a Sentence

laze

verb
  • While he was sick, he just lazed around the house.
  • She's been lazing in the sun all afternoon.
  • But then again, lazing around in your pj's has the same effect.
    Cari Romm, CNN, 2 June 2017
  • So live life to the fullest or take a cue from a cat and laze about to honor man's other best friend.
    Scottie Andrew and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Many tourists don’t feel the urge to do much else beyond lazing on the sand and cooling off in the water.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Behind them, a pod of hippos lazed in the water of a shallow lake.
    Benedict Moran, National Geographic, 7 May 2019
  • The rooftop includes several bars, a year-round pool and a lawn area for lazing.
    Jim Byers, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Students can laze in the park before and after school, and during lunch.
    Suzanne Pfefferle Tafur, NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • And, if your MO is simply to laze, your beach concierge can certainly help with that as well.
    Juliet Izon, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2023
  • For those who love a short set to laze around in, this set from swimwear brand Vitamin A will do nicely.
    Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Kim Hye-ran, a 54-year-old office worker, had taken the day off to laze around inside a tent.
    Eun-Young Jeong, WSJ, 18 June 2019
  • Aesthetics aside, there’s also more to do besides laze in the sun.
    Christina Liao, Vogue, 18 July 2017
  • This is just the day to do that, since Luna and Jupiter are lazing about together in your playful 5th house.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Take it from someone who has worked from home for over two years, nothing beats lazing around your house all day in a robe.
    Medea Giordano, Wired, 17 May 2020
  • The next few days were a blissful blur of reading, eating, lazing, and swimming.
    Sunil Badami, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
  • Visitors can laze in the soft white sand and have plenty of photo opps on Eagle Beach.
    Brittany Anas, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • People shuffle in and wander into a room or onto the balcony or laze on a couch.
    New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Even the stumbling-distance tasting rooms feel far away when lazing at the pool, where The Shed serves light bites and refreshing iced tea.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2023
  • Visitors love the stone walls, rolling hills on which locals laze in the summer, and of course, the crowning jewel of Vieux-Québec, Château Frontenac.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2021
  • When the weather gets warmer, scratch all that and laze about in the nude, tossing a gauze robe on top of your glistening skin when modesty is desired.
    Zoe Dubno, Vogue, 16 June 2022
  • To Paris to pose beneath the Eiffel Tower or to laze the afternoon away on an outdoor terrace over café crèmes and tarte tatin.
    Christina Pérez, Vogue, 14 May 2017
  • Or when the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park in 1969, bringing the curtain down on flower power for the half a million hippies lazing in the sun.
    B.r., The Economist, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Nerissa’s mother was lazing on the lazyboy, half asleep with the news blaring.
    Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The navigation feature enables users to laze a target as far as 3 miles away.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
  • These four teenagers laze around the neighborhood, pulling small-time heists and oddball capers, but also mourning the loss of their friend Daniel, who took his own life prior to the start of the show.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • If sunbathing is your pleasure, laze about on nearby St. George Island.
    Caroline McKenzie, Country Living, 16 Nov. 2022
  • If your kids are used to lazing around in the morning and having a flexible time to wake up, school mornings can be a big adjustment.
    Mary Caldwell, ajc, 12 July 2018
  • The Kids Club, an oasis of perpetual amusements overseen by a jolly and competent staff, sets the adults free to laze and lounge and nap.
    Veronique De Turenne, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2017
  • There’s lots to do here, from star gazing to spear-fishing—but when the beach is this paradisiacal, why do anything else but laze?
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Dozens of them can be seen lazing about the reef structure, their billowing white spines almost looking like anemonies, as seen in this photo by AL.com's Ben Raines.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, AL.com, 27 Aug. 2017

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