slowness
Example Sentences
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The postal service has faced years of criticism from politicians and the public over the slowness of its letter delivery.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
The company’s revised guidance was legitimately terrible, indicating that the slowness of the rollout surprised them as well, and will drag on.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
It’s a slowness she’d never had to confront, in a language she doesn’t speak.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2026
Such tool use—notably hand letter-cutting in stone, producing forms like those we see on traditional monuments—stands for “materiality, for slowness, for permanence” in the face of boardroom brainstorming and assembly-line production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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 "Glitch" by Laura Martin
