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Six example sentences with desultory, each labelled with its topic.
His desultory gym visits, three one week and none the next, produced no change after six months.
Fitness
The band's desultory rehearsals wandered from one half finished song to another until the drummer stopped bothering to arrive.
Music
The novel's middle third is desultory, drifting between minor characters as though the author had mislaid the story.
Literature
The team's desultory defense in the third quarter let the visitors score on nine straight possessions.
Basketball
After the merger fell through, the company drifted through desultory planning sessions that ended without a single decision.
Business
The campaign was desultory from the start, with rallies scheduled late and canceled by lunchtime.
Politics
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