slog

Example Sentences

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The more access points embedded throughout a city—and let’s not forget its suburbs—the more the single biggest source of travel stress disappears: the unpredictable slog from home to gate.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

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

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

Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson