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
And what is with all the slowpoke drivers in town with “Oregon” license plates?
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 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
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
“It’s a tight track and we’re going out first and I catch the slowpokes all the time.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
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 King, Basil
