slug
Example Sentences
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When the nights of feeding still drag and the days creep along like a slug, people will warn you with a knowing air that your baby’s life will “go so fast.”
“In the end, they not only ran it back, they sprinted it back, they slugged it back, and then, finally, they literally Will-ed it back,” I wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
When the Dodgers are on the field, Shohei Ohtani dominates the headlines with his base running, his slugging and his pitching.
From Los Angeles Times
Sea slugs, corals, clams and sponges may not get as much of the spotlight as blue whales or sharks, but these curious creatures come with a host of unique, hard-to-believe abilities.
Both brains and slugs use the same chemical mechanisms to develop abstractions, general rules to guide their hosts through the chaos of moment-to-moment experience.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
