How To Use Slog In A Sentence

Many shops and businesses were shut while crowds blocked traffic and chanted anti-government slogans. Times, Sunday Times
Slogging up the alpine tracks, another decision was made. Times, Sunday Times
There is actually a dishonesty, really, about that slogan that says to keep it in the laboratory and it will be OK.
No one builds a jingle or a slogan or even a brand identity using web advertising.
The "freedom to learn" has become just another one of the government's empty slogans.

Such a slogan will bind us hand and foot.
Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
Was a five-set slogging match in oppressive heat what the heart specialists would have recommended? Times, Sunday Times
They're the sprinters, he says, whereas malamutes are sloggers, which were used in days of yore for hauling heavy freight.
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
Products may also be different for less tangible reasons, such as perceived quality enhanced by brand names or advertising slogans. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
But queuing at a car park for an hour to slog around the shops is not my idea of the perfect weekend. The Sun
Such a slogan will bind us hand and foot.
The rugged terrain to be negotiated and the 32-km distance to be slogged from Eravikulam hut to Konalar fishing hut at a lower altitude of 1,889 m made the members sweat out in just five hours.
They added anti-nuclear slogans as they passed the offices of Tokyo Electic Power Co, the operator of the stricken Fukushima plant. 'Occupy' Protests Around the World
Graduate of a City Council graffiti-spelling workshop for street kids, he knew how to decode the slogans of the day, how to phase them and how to remix them.
No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
It's certainly been a hard slog but I think any experience, especially bad ones, usually benefit you long-term.
What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play.
I've seen the slogan 'Enjoy Responsibly' all over the Emirate's hoardings but my local off-licence haven't heard of it. Arsenal v Shakhtar Donetsk – as it happened
Actually, "splog" or "slog" are two common shorthands for "Spam Blogs"; as people linked to you using "slog", Google assumed is was to point at a wrong doer... Spam blog - SLOG
Ignoring for now the slogan chanters and political partisans, there are a few key points to keep in mind.
I don't know if this painting was made for that purpose - it could have been to prevent people from covering it with political slogans and posters.
Angry young men began chanting slogans. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
Freedom, democracy and fraternity are people's slogans and globalization and liberalization are the slogans of imperialism.
So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
For years they have marched, waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege.
Uphill it's no slogger either, with barely a jiggle of movement from the shock, even with the bike set to 'freeride' amounts of sag. Singletrack World
Trying to "ketchup" with consumer demand for healthier foods, H.J. Heinz dropped the gherkin pickle from the condiment's more-than-a-century-old label logo and spruced it up with a tomato on the vine with the slogan "Grown not made. Heinz ketchup spruces up label with a tomato
They were struggling home yesterday and if the forecast rain arrives it will be a real slog up the hill today. The Sun
Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed.
The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade.
And some poor souls in that peloton were slogging up those climbs 'paniagua'. Times, Sunday Times
You could be sitting there in absolutely untenable conditions, in water that is filled with disease and germs for months to come, walking through it, slogging through it.
After the hard slog of six weeks' training, body and mind were not quite in sync. Times, Sunday Times
The walk into Acomb for an early morning appointment at the Gale Farm Surgery is almost always a bit of an adventure for an ageing footslogger.
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After the schlepp and slog of it all, contestants would find out if they'd won after the first quarter of the super bowl; an announcement which would involve no words, only the music to the winner's song played -- to 90 million people. Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis
As the float passed by the boat jetties, officials and tourists raised slogans against plastic items.
They didn't protest with banners and cute slogans. Times, Sunday Times
Then Dave Boone and Wally made a stand that roused the perspiring spectators to something like enthusiasm, for Mr. Boone was a mighty "slogger," and Wally had a neat and graceful style that sent the Cunjee supporters into the seventh heaven. Mates at Billabong
The burly left-hander and former England one-day player has just been given the captaincy so to slog the left arm spin of Gary Keedy to long-on was nothing less than irresponsible.
We have to get stuck into him and slog him out of the attack. The Sun
Many shops and businesses were shut while crowds blocked traffic and chanted anti-government slogans. Times, Sunday Times
In the emotional reaction to the attacks in New York and Washington, sloganeers drowned out intelligence.
Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers.
A small group of protesters waved placards and shouted slogans before fighting with police.
It may be true that, according to Freddoso, Obama dismissed the slogan “Yes we can” as “vapid and mindless” when it was first proposed to him, in 2004, but he liked it well enough in 2008, and then came the null emptiness of the phrase — the audacity of hope — that he annexed from a windy sermon by Jeremiah Wright. Cool Cat
Cities and counties hoping to reinvent themselves or boost their brand may reach straight for a new slogan. Times, Sunday Times
Workers carried a large Solidarity banner and chanted antigovernment slogans during the demonstration.
Marking the exam papers was quite a slog.
A barely contained energy surged through the crowd; it appeared to ripple as slogan after slogan boomed out across the open space.
And sometimes the long slog of piling on pounds seems tough. The Sun
The pitch wasn't great and there were a few slogs from me but a few good shots as well.
By contrast, England have slogged their way through virtually every competitive game they have played under Eriksson.
That's not an election slogan you would expect from the Tories. The Sun
The slogans attack America's involvement in Indo-China and support of Zionism, as well as American and Soviet "aggression, control, interference, and bullying".
Young people like jeans and sweatshirts with American slogans or logos.
In these circumstances, the artist has a natural and direct relationship with the people - his role is just to re-present popular slogans and icons in visual form.
After an hour of singing, sloganeering and speeches on everything from Palestine to Cuba, the protest has made its symbolic statement and it's time to go home.
We had countless tortuous internal meetings to prioritize and slog through the full set of 500 items.
'So far as I can make out that won't take me into the passport country, but I'll have to do a bit of footslogging. Mr. Standfast
WHETHER it is after a day of sightseeing or the slog from work, give your feet a boost with a refreshing spray. The Sun
When you look at it, sift the evidence rather than merely recite the slogans, the evidence is patchy. Times, Sunday Times
keep slogging away! You must achieve success.
Some of their slogans can seem almost as simplistic as those of the protesters. Times, Sunday Times
Yet while other ministers and MPs have been taking a long break, they have been slogging it out for much of the summer on the campaign trail.
Some of the slogans were pro-megacity. Globe and Mail
I believe usual practise is to assume that if you got a nice early slide this time because of BST, you might get a kick in the rear end later in the year from the return to GMT; your twelve hour night shift magically morphing into a 13hr slog. Policing Pledge Is A Lie SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Wides and no-balls were matched even by heaves and slogs, and on another day, India could have easily been reduced to 25 for 4 with a similar approach.
The demonstrators shouted slogans against new culture minister Angeles GonzÃ¡lez-Sinde [right], a former president of the Spanish Cinema Academy who has often spoken out against Internet piracy. Spanish surfers protest anti-P2P restrictions
Sure enough, the Kuomintang dropped the slogan not long after, and prices and taxes rose steadily.
His rise to prominence, culminating at this year's French Open where he reached his first Grand Slam semifinal, has been a hard slog.
Martin Eadon, a director in London, had his walls daubed with slogans.
It was a long, hard slog to the top, which took us around five hours, mainly because we were all heavily loaded up with the extra survival equipment and food supplies.
We are not impressed by huge billboards in city centres with derogatory slogans about the opponents dreamt up by expensive PR consultants. Times, Sunday Times
But there will be more hard slog. Times, Sunday Times
Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
By marching together, carrying banners and chanting slogans, thousands of students peacefully displayed their anger and emotion against the war that had started.
Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’.
For a decade, he slogged around the edges of the business by representing athletes whenever possible. He Knew He Was Right
When acting on behalf of the public, it ought always have a clear reason for what it is doing, that it can articulate without shame, sloganeering, or reliance on non-existent evidence.
No art, nothing but some sadly punning slogans and the most uninspired, turgid and solipsistically verbose writing. Times, Sunday Times
These serve a duplicitous ideological function in the manner of advertising slogans.
They secure their degrees by slogging through an intensive 11-month course.
But the pop pair have been slogging it out for months. The Sun
You know that recruitment campaign with the slogan that says 99.9 per cent need not apply? Times, Sunday Times
Zau al-Makan thanked him therefor, and the slogan arose and the sabre was drawn; but, as things stood thus, behold, there came forth a cavalier from the ranks of Roum; and, as he drew near, they saw that he was mounted on a slow paced she mule, fleeing with her master from the shock of swords. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
So, the sloganeers have found common cause with the nervous backbench nobodies and the jilted ex-Ministers in the pursuit of lowest common denominator personality politics.
Slowly our health returns and the next seven days, while being a hard slog, go relatively smoothly.
This was followed by a short quiz to see which fire safety slogans we could remember. TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
Kumble went round the wicket to bring the ugly miscued, sliced slog to mid-off's hands into play.
His lips trembled, and he felt strangely compelled to shout a defiant slogan.
Patriotic slogans and neon signs, put up by private businessmen on office towers, depict dolphins (the region's mascot) and the bauhinia flower. Painting The Town Red
But it wasn't all hill runs and slogging about in the elements. Times, Sunday Times
He stays further and will be a threat if this is a real slog. The Sun
Students painted their bodies with slogans or carried hand-written placards condemning the drive to war.
When you look at it, sift the evidence rather than merely recite the slogans, the evidence is patchy. Times, Sunday Times
It is a sobering argument and one whose subtlety may not penetrate the political/media filter that permits only sound bites and slogans to pass through.
Eschewing the traditional end-of-term merriment the night before, slogging through the mud can hardly compare to bopping in the pub.
Their banners and slogans display wit and intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in the square.
Zou said whether the protest resulted in renewed political conflict with the central government would depend on the slogans chanted during the protest.
I would hate to disillusion our friends from that galaxy far, far away, but my impression is that none of those slogans mean anything more than they say, and that in any case, they do not say very much.
I know a lot of you are doing stuff together, but it's a hard slog to find out what.
MacPhee traces stencil graffiti from Marxist sloganeers in postwar Europe to Cold War revolutionaries to '70s conceptual artists, punks and finally a mishmash of skaters and other urban subculturists in the '80s and '90s.
When a young McCann-Erickson copywriter came up with L'Oréal's famous slogan in 1971, advertising was characterized by snappy catchphrases on billboards and 30-second spots. L'Oréal Slogan Must Prove Worth Anew
The slogan follows for a well-known brand of vodka.
She then pinned to my shirt a button bearing a save-the-animals slogan whose precise wording I've forgotten.
Manchester United fans with the radge on, holding a banner with a slogan directed at Sir Alex Fergus ... hold on ... the club's corporate sponsors The Guardian World News
Walls in Jmayl were daubed with the slogan "Only God and Muammar. Libya rebels take prime minister's hometown
Bush was in inexperienced and unqualified candidate in 2000 who could only speak with slogans and vague promises. Republicans compare Obama to failed policies
Without a coherent set of policies to persuade the electorate, the Republicans have resorted to sloganeering and empty rhetoric.
In orange and green spray paint that seems almost subtle next to the luminous signatures and bawdy slogans, a simple piece of graffiti is etched onto the wall of the off-license on a Hull estate.
But the Occupy Wall Street protest, which has been burgeoning in dozens of other American locales, may gain traction with its slogan, "We are the 99%, " says Lichtenstein.
It was Bill Clinton, after all, who coined the eternal slogan for the era of hyperindividualism: ‘It's the economy, stupid.’
If we don\'t go beyond self-exculpatory sloganeering in attempting to answer that key question, any "counter terrorism apparatus" is doomed to failure. Counterterrorism In Shambles; Why?
They finally got the break they needed when they found a way over the open water lead after a 15-hour slog through the blizzard.
And now the hard slog is paying off. The Sun
But queuing at a car park for an hour to slog around the shops is not my idea of the perfect weekend. The Sun
His slogan as a Socialist in the shadow of the Mitterrand years was the freedom to invent!
Boys noisily demand balloons from him, which they then watch fly into the gunmetal Glasgow sky bearing the slogan ‘Say yes to progress’.
I think the problems the church faces are more complicated than just quips and labels and sloganeering.
They marched to the state government secretariat chanting slogans condemning the administration's attitude to the dispute.
The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
After a day slogging away at work, I need to relax.
This repetitiveness makes even the relatively short 20-minute running time of each episode a real slog.
I ended up doing many marathons and ultra-marathons, but now I'm a slogger, a slow jogger. Debate wrapup
Now customers are in a new stage of recovery for the rest, slogging through what some describe as an unduly arduous claims process. MF Global Customers Wrapped in Red Tape
After lunch we footslogged around Chiang Mai looking for bargains in bras.
They waved placards and chanted the slogans that are doing the rounds this week. Times, Sunday Times
The only things I'm definitely against are short-termist thinking, nationalism, cheap arguments and sloganeering.
One of Ms. Bridgewater's most enduring styles—words and phrases lithographed onto cream-colored pottery—was born on a trip to New York, where a dealer showed her a plate with the slogan "Votes for Women. The Queen of Mugs and Saucers
Taken at face value, the most natural meaning of this slogan is that the body has nothing to do with sin.
A couple of slogs by Sami then happened and he was caught plumb in front by Kumble.
The ceremony was disrupted by unprecedented heckling and slogan-chanting.
The book is okay but honestly, it's really just kind of slogging along issue to issue and I think it's going to be better in trades anyway, John Cassaday's covers be damned. IFanboy
The offensive slogan is written is written in letters six inches high on the back of the garment.
But it actually was a slogan used repeatedly by Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in their campaign in 1968. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Such dedication is admirable, but the relentlessness of it, the unendingly hard slog - is that a good thing? Times, Sunday Times
They go on to state that, in the late '70s, punk was more than loud music and T-shirt slogans.
It was a less than impressive start to a hard slog ahead.
The slogan was daubed with black paint on the Mercedes, which was parked outside their home in Blacklion, Cavan.
A quick flip through the Yellow Pages revealed a variety of advertising slogans.
At recess, the teacher found a group of her girls chanting that slogan on the playground.
Your average Brunswick St. drone is heavily badged and sloganeered (jackets, caps, shirts, bags, tattoos) just to make sure that absolute strangers know exactly what they are all about in the key area: fashion, music and politics.
The tourists crowded the tables in the sidewalk cafes, the slogans had been whitewashed from the walls, the children were back in school. Letters from Mexico watch out for the wind
Maybe it's just time for the marketing team to find a moment of inspiration and invent a new slogan?
Each slogan landed with the force of a punch and won cheers from a largely conservative crowd of South Dakotan students.
Police also forcibly dispersed a slogan-shouting crowd of protesters in the adjoining city of Bhaktapur, injuring two people.
They typed their flyers, mimeographed and then distributed them; they painted slogans and graffiti on prominent walls.
A clever slogan to sell vats of hair dye a few seasons back, but does it stand up as social analysis?
Now the sloganeers at the Post's editorial department have come up with a new catch-phrase.
Edward slogged away, always learning.
With Cato's slogan ringing in their ears, with their jealousy of Carthage's economic success, the Roman senate decreed that the terms of the treaty had been violated and it duly declared war.
Land lends itself too easily to sloganeering and an unquestioning intellectual certainty about the course of struggle.
One common emotion is driving the small army of Korean protesters marching, sloganeering and even demanding the withdrawal of an old ally: their shock, then anger, over the lack of any one being punished.
Indeed the music - nasty brutish and short - was largely the least interesting thing about it when compared with the slogans and the scams. Times, Sunday Times
Angry young men began chanting slogans. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
But don't panic - there is an alternative to slogging around the shops and post office this yuletide to send bits of dead tree. Times, Sunday Times
Next ball, as if vindictively, he reverted to a hideous, shameless cross-batted slog near midwicket for six.
The most effective political slogans are often the shortest. Times, Sunday Times
Apart from the winner getting the free watch, the winning slogan will also be displayed on the hoarding.
Approach slogs vary from muddy hikes to tailgate-to-tailgate perfection, and the vagaries of road closures change access yearly.
Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents. Yoani Sanchez: Where a Simple Suggestion Equals Dissent
More generally, it's become blazingly apparent that extreme political views that wouldn't even have been whispered just a few years ago have become proud campaign slogans. Rev. Peter M. Wallace: The Christian Call to Civility
Sydney Opera House staff inspect the ‘no war’ slogan daubed on the building by protesters.
After slogging Lee for six, he tries to repeat the trick, but mistimes it straight to Katich at deep midwicket.
And this guy is a real pacifist, not a tag-along sloganeer.
The most recent one was in the Stranger Slog this morning involving slogger Erica Barnett and the moving company All My Sons Movers. (link to slog) Horror Stories With Moving Companies
The session was interspaced with militant slogan shouting and revolutionary songs.
He footslogged it around the world-famous Dal Lake, visiting all the Mughal Gardens at Nishat, Shalimar and Harwan and the Botanical Gardens, but all in vain.
Though many on the ground in the struggle against the Shah were leftists and other secular democratic forces -- some of whom organized important strikes, demonstrations, and other actions independently from the religious hierarchy -- the religious overtone of the demonstrations was apparent in the slogans, communiqués, banners, graffiti, and other means throughout the 13-month struggle that led to the Shah's overthrow in February 1979. Stephen Zunes: Why Egypt Will Not Turn Into Another Iran
Mix it with plaid shirts, denim and cropped slogan tees to complete the rave generation look. The Sun
Few were animated or fired by this slogan, and only rarely those few.
We slogged through the mud of an early spring thaw.
The march was mostly peaceful, although some self-proclaimed anarchists spray-painted slogans on a bank.
No, it might be a better investment to give every footslogger extra rations in the form of new courts, coaches and clubs; to increase the height of the pyramid by widening its base, rather than simply adding to its summit a fragile spike. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation. Gordon B. Hinckley
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Because of the short notice, I can't receive any artwork for ads, but am willing to use a marker pen to scribble your company slogan on my t-shirt for money.
A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
A new supporters' club has adopted the name ‘Red Ultras’ and carried a banner with the slogan into matches at Pittodrie and in Glasgow.
I first saw the new antihero last year on a waitperson's chest (slogan: ‘Cute but psycho’), but I didn't know her name then.
This is always a dour test and the prospect of overnight rain could make it a real slog. The Sun
But while the audience get to wend their way along the four-mile route through the trees on golf carts, the performers will be footslogging ahead through the mud.
In the afternoon, in another similar demonstration villagers of Ratanpur assembled at the crossing of Durgapur expressway and blocked it demanding opening of Tata plant and chanting anti Mamata slogans. In a Backlash, Calcutta and Bengal Heating Up for the Cause of Tata Nano
It is a hard slog but Solomon is determined to make it to the top.
Not that it did me much good, as the motorway was the usual slog. Ruby Tuesday
Inside, dozens of stalls sold goods ranging from Palestinian olive oil to sloganeering tee shirts advertising everything from cannabis and Che Guevera to ‘No Sweat’ fair trade plimsolls.
Inside the ruined and deserted school building, the classroom walls are still adorned with a series of moral slogans.
The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans.
Besides, starring in a film is surely more fun than slogging through an English degree.
Most are adorned with slogan buttons, some of which are very old and rare.
Such a slogan will bind our hand and foot.
Clare did not ‘start from nothing’ but, after taking a degree in applied maths from Edinburgh, he learnt his trade the hard way, slogging around newsagents in Bradford trying to flog them Mars bars.
Peace was the mission of idealistic youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the cause of peace may even have been hurt by overdone sloganeering and posturing.

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