slack

In a sentence

Six example sentences with slack, each labelled with its topic.

• Sailors on the old clipper ships hauled in the slack before every turn, since a loose line could snap taut and sweep the deck.

  History

• Factories ran with so little slack that one late shipment of bolts idled the assembly line for two full days.

  Economics

• Rangers left some slack in the tracking collar so the young wolf's neck could grow through the summer without chafing.

  Environment

• Take up the slack in the resistance band before you start, or the first inch of every rep does nothing.

  Fitness

• The project plan had no slack, so one late delivery pushed the launch by a full month.

  Business

• The servers ran with plenty of slack, so the holiday traffic spike never pushed them past half their capacity.

  Technology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains slack. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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