slug

Example Sentences

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At the heart of this run has been Pasquantino, a slugging first baseman for the Kansas City Royals who is the team’s most fearsome hitter and unofficial recruiting coordinator.

From The Wall Street Journal

“So … they can offer me anything? What if they offer me dirt, or a slug, or … or … something really awful?”

From Literature

They pointed to the slugs that they were picking from the cabbage leaves.

From Literature

And I started collecting things and leaving them as presents in their basement: snakes, spiders, grubs, and slugs.

From Literature

She went to her computer and wrote some code, walked a set of punch cards to the mainframe in another building, and waited while it slugged through the calculations.

From Literature