slog

“The last eight seasons have been difficult to slog through as a fan. But seeing this revival really does start to make up for it.”

The maniacal slogging at the beginning of his tenure as captain was a lighting of the way for his England team-mates.

If performances in county cricket mean less than they used to, what is the point of a player slogging around the circuit?

“The Idiot” is a nearly five-hour slog by a Polish-Russian contemporary of Shostakovich about another Dostoevsky outsider who succumbs to visions of grandeur.

The slog of the first half was history and all that mattered was now.