How to Use slack-jawed in a Sentence

slack-jawed

adjective

• Sailors lined the boardwalk to catch a glimpse of the actress, while one woman sunbathing in a coat, tights, and an ankle-length skirt watched on in slack-jawed confusion.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2025
• The litigation is the latest twist in a simmering behind-the-scenes scandal that has left much of Hollywood slack-jawed.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• Cross-country skiing is known for its attrition, an event that leaves its competitors foam-mouthed and slack-jawed; athletes of iron reduced to trembling and contorted shapes on the floor.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• My boredom typically spurs feelings of frustration, guilt, shame—and long nutritionless spells of goggling, slack-jawed, at celebrity news on my phone while the world throbs around me.
  — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
• Two slack-jawed, bare- foot drummers are wailing a caveman beat in unison—their syncopation and their short, efficient haircuts mark them as obvious members of a cult.
  — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• The Montana Republican’s decision left lawmakers slack-jawed for numerous reasons.
  — Al Weaver, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2026
• As the car carrying him departed the police station, a photographer captured another indelible image, of the former Prince slumped in the back seat, wide-eyed and slack-jawed—the boy for whom the chimes once pealed looking very much like a man for whom the bell now tolls.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026