SLUGGISH in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for SLUGGISH, such as:
1. Some are blacker than the sluggish bear.
2. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
3. Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
4. The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
5. A heavy lunch makes me sluggish in the afternoon.
2. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
3. Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
4. The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
5. A heavy lunch makes me sluggish in the afternoon.
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Meanings and Examples of SLUGGISH
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sluggish
a. lazy; with little movement; very slow
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
2 His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
3 A crude grey light, mirrored in the sluggish water and a smell of wet branches over their heads seemed to war against the course of Stephen's thought.
4 The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
5 The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish.
6 He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish ice.
7 It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
8 In her thought she traced its course as it ran down the hill to the sluggish Flint River, through the tangled swampy bottoms and up the next hill to Twelve Oaks where Ashley lived.
9 "I must have been over-tired last night; I think I had a nervous attack in the carriage," she said, as the drink brought clearness to her sluggish thoughts.
10 Some are blacker than the sluggish bear.
11 It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.
12 The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible.
13 A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.
14 They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in.
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Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
15 Holmes's face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched its sluggish drift.
Example Sentence:
1 Technological advance is also a major factor in sluggish wage growth in the United States.
2 I think running water is much more attractive in moor and mountain country than in the fat and sluggish South.
3 The Apple iPad version has some performance issues, such as sluggish movement or audio that might stutter on occasion.
4 A heavy lunch makes me sluggish in the afternoon.
5 Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
6 Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
7 A cocktail of jobless recovery, sluggish growth and low inflation is a major worry for the eurozone and the ECB has urged governments to speed up implementation of structural reforms, vital for Europe's economy to heal.