slowness

Example Sentences

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“Henry Ford Hospital” from 1932 offers an unsparing look at the artist following a miscarriage, in which blood vessels fan out like ribbons and objects like snails hint at the slowness of her recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal

But his strength was failing, and he rose with agonizing slowness, hampered by his sodden clothes.

From Literature

“There’s a real slowness in food and ceramics,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

When he first moved to L.A., it gave him a “slowness” and a pace of life that was less demanding than in other cities.

From Los Angeles Times

I asked Professor Brown as she came over to help the technician remove the probes from my left leg with a painstaking slowness that set my teeth on edge.

From Literature