sluggish

Example Sentences

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This was meant to be a recovery year for the luxury sector after a lengthy period of falling demand and sluggish sales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

In his view, Intel’s stock “was simply stretched in the short term,” after a mostly sluggish performance driven by investors’ fears that it had fallen too far behind in the AI race.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

However, this is being offset by sluggish demand in traditional automakers and electric vehicles as well as weakness in consumer electronics, which are getting squeezed due to increased memory costs.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

The visit will have been a welcome respite for the prime minister, who has faced increasingly strained diplomatic ties with China, rising prices and a sluggish economy since coming to office in October.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

To survive, he ate worms and snails and other sluggish, deaf, and blind little creatures that inhabited the soft, mysterious soil.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols