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

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

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2026

Especially impressive is the slowness with which the arms move, his hands accentuating the speech but in a natural way; that is, they don’t move with every sentence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

The party was launched in 2015, following conversations between Mayer and Toksvig in which they shared their "impatience with the slowness of change" on women's issues.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

I moved with deliberate slowness, anger suddenly building in me.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd