| 1. | who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent dispositio. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | To waste long nights in indolent repose. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | It is very curious to watch this harem and its lord in their indolent ramblings. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | He will grow more and more indolent and careles. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | An indolent atheling to the honor-blest man ther. - from Beowulf by |
| 8. | And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 9. | The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |