How To Use Sluggishly In A Sentence
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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.
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Blood pumped out of her wounds and sluggishly oozed down her body.
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He saw the phosphorescent glimmer of a shark, like a sea ghost, drift sluggishly by.
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The wide road was blocked solid with traffic that moved along sluggishly.
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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.
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Loaded with 870 gallons of gasoline and 40 gallons of oil, the ship moved sluggishly.
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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
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The mirror on the wall vibrated with every beat of the footsteps, and sluggishly, Lena registered her own shaking image.
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the smoke rose sluggishly
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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.
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The youths took up the chant ‘a thief is a cheat’, and Chief Nwakibie sluggishly danced along.
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Faiz instantly pressed his handle, and the great noise and dust and blackness burst up, as at Mudow-wara a week before, and enveloped me where I sat, while the green-yellow sickly smoke of lyddite hung sluggishly about the wreck.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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The flagellum of the smaller one at length moved slower, then sluggishly, then fell upon the sarcode, which rapidly diminished, while the bigger form expanded and became vividly active until the two bodies had actually fused into one.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
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Most households, it seems, react sluggishly to the market's shifting performance, which may help explain why consumption has held up despite the pullback in stock prices.
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On the other side of him, men, women, and children were rousing themselves from sleep and moving sluggishly to the fire to get warm.
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He threw the helm over, hard aport, the Snow Goose responding sluggishly.
CORMORANT
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Shares hit 236.5p after the announcement on Wednesday - a three and a half year high - but have performed sluggishly since the company's flotation in 1996.
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The buffalo [a native variety of the carp] now swish sluggishly around him, some pushing half-heartedly on the nets.
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He removed the small stopper from the calabash, and, as the sweet water gurgled into it, he saw the phosphorescent glimmer of a big fish, like a sea ghost, drift sluggishly by.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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Vincent shrugged sluggishly before plopping back down on the leather sofa.
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He again started sluggishly in the final round, taking bogey from the rough on No. 1 and having to save par from thick grass short of the green at No. 2.
Glover, Barnes lead as U.S. Open heads to Monday finale
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His grip sluggishly loosed and his head slowly rested on the couch.
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Boneless One 42 gnaws his foot in his fireless house and wretched home; for the sun shows him no pastures to make for, but goes to and fro over the land and city of dusky men 43, and shines more sluggishly upon the whole race of the Hellenes.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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He ducked in behind the cargo ship, which was lifting sluggishly upwards.
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Waking up from its slumber in cool waters, it sluggishly walks around, often opening its mouth to catch the banana thrown by the woman walking along with her.
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The plane staggered and started to climb, slowly, sluggishly, wobbling terrifyingly.
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The group seemed very irritable after that unpleasant sleep and they moved sluggishly around the desert.
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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.
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The bond and currency markets, trading primarily via phone, operated throughout the day, but sluggishly.
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He saw the phosphorescent glimmer of a shark, like a sea ghost, drift sluggishly by.