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

And what is with all the slowpoke drivers in town with “Oregon” license plates?

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 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

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