sluggishly

How To Use sluggishly In A Sentence

• It spreads rapidly and can form dense mats of vegetation in still or sluggishly flowing waters; in fact it is a menace to the health of the rivers, canals, and lakes which it invades.
• Blood pumped out of her wounds and sluggishly oozed down her body.
• He saw the phosphorescent glimmer of a shark, like a sea ghost, drift sluggishly by.
• The wide road was blocked solid with traffic that moved along sluggishly.
• Suddenly, she heard the tell-tale sound of the cell door being unbolted; turning, Julianna watched as it swung open sluggishly, a trio of guards waiting in the doorway.
• Loaded with 870 gallons of gasoline and 40 gallons of oil, the ship moved sluggishly.
• Something in the sharpened face, too, looked as if more than eyesight had been palsied in these years of utter solitude: the brain was dulled with sluggishly gnawing over and over the few animal ideas they leave for prisoners 'souls, -- or, as probably, thoroughly imbruted by them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
• The mirror on the wall vibrated with every beat of the footsteps, and sluggishly, Lena registered her own shaking image.
• the smoke rose sluggishly
• At the back of the drainboard, smack in the middle of the dishcloth, a small brown roach waved his antennae sluggishly-sick, no doubt, confusing his nights and days.