sluggishly

Example Sentences

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Sluggishly it came drifting down toward Barnes’s hidden face.

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Sluggishly they threw the golden ears over their shoulders to the ground, where it was collected by the women and carried to the shed on the beach—a long roof of leaves, without walls.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix

Sluggishly in my dead frame fluttered a something.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph

Sluggishly day limped closer, smashing the remains of the night with an iron crutch.

From The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein by Lichtenstein, Alfred

Sluggishly, reluctantly, impotently, the spruce logs followed one another round and round the circuit of the great stone pot.

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir