slog

Example Sentences

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The several-year slog for home sales, in part brought about by quickly rising mortgage rates, looked set to improve at the start of 2026, Rindos wrote in a note.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

She simply kept showing up for it anyway, through the long and often anonymous slog of the professional tour.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

His contention that bombing industrial centers would lead to a speedy victory was seen by many as a response to World War I, and the long slog of trench warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Despite being on the staff of my school’s newspaper, I expected the film to be a slog; boring and obsessed with detail and names I didn’t know or care much about.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

He knew full well that a two- thousand-meter race was an entirely different matter from a four-mile slog at Poughkeepsie.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown