slowpoke

Example Sentences

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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

Gov. Newsom kept her on as leader of a “strike team” to reform the slowpoke Department of Motor Vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2019

After an asteroid crashed into the earth 66 million years ago, triggering a mass extinction, it would have been harder for slowpoke reproducers like dinosaurs to recover.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2017

What an irony: From the last days of the slowpoke Dick Bennett regime in 2006, they’ve come full circle.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2014

And I hate to say it but Adah is just as ornery and bent on destruction, in her own slowpoke way.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver