slowpoke

Example Sentences

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“This is a very mortifying situation,” Fisher Ames of Massachusetts said then, at Federal Hall in New York City, while waiting for his slowpoke colleagues.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

“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

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

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