slowness

Example Sentences

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“Henry Ford Hospital” from 1932 offers an unsparing look at the artist following a miscarriage, in which blood vessels fan out like ribbons and objects like snails hint at the slowness of her recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

“There’s a real slowness in food and ceramics,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

It’s a slowness she’d never had to confront, in a language she doesn’t speak.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2026

Adapting to the slowness of the pitch, he played none of his trademark dabs to third man, instead pouncing to whip through the leg side any time England dropped short.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Glaciers, proverbial for their slowness, produce major reworkings of landscapes on the Earth and probably also on Mars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan