If you allow the oven to get slack, the cake will be spoiled.

Let's not let ourselves get slack here, though.

We are inclined to get slack and slow with our camping arrangements, and small delays increase.

They've nothing to do and their bodies get slack and pampered, and they eat heaps too much.

You might get slack, don't you know?

Greg was trying to pull the boat up enough to get slack in the rope with no success.

I mustn't let myself get slack.

The fact is that all of us as drivers can fall into bad habits and we can get slack.

Don't let them get slack.

Happen when I'm gone, when the slave-driver's gone, eh, he'll get slack, begin to think he knows more about it than I do!

I get slack if things go wrong, and if I slouched about, brooding, when I ought to be at work, it would make you worse.

After long spells of trench life, troops get very much out of strong, efficient marching capabilities, and are also apt to get slack all round.

They do every once in a while when the work gets slack.

Things are getting slack again now and men are being laid off.

I remember saying to Sarah, 'They must have got slack.

He'd gotten slack, a cold thought told him in his own viciously calm voice.