slowpoke
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But if your heart is a slowpoke the rest of the time, your health could be at risk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2022
“She was not a slowpoke grown-up,” Cleary wrote in “Ramona and Her Mother.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Jones, the first-round draft pick, had trouble hanging onto the ball at times, but he had a strong arm and was no slowpoke, like Manning.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019
Four decades after the slowpoke era of "Drive 55," when a national energy crisis slowed speed limits to a crawl, gas prices have leveled off and automobiles have become far more fuel-efficient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2014
The work was hot and dry and as monotonous as the maddening, slowpoke motion of the pumpjacks themselves.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Even Caitlin Clark and Iowa — not exactly slowpokes themselves — couldn’t keep up.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
Dmitriy Katsnelson’s take on the bull reminds me when a friend and I were cooling our heels on a golf course, waiting for the four slowpokes in front of us to move on.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
These slowpokes in the left lane are annoying, to be sure, but it still seems extreme to label their behavior illegal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2015
You know better than I. I'm one of those slowpokes who look on the fancy for taking a hand in other people's affairs as I do on the taste for committing suicide—there's always time.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
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