SLUGGISH in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for SLUGGISH, such as:

1. Some are blacker than the sluggish bear.
2. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
3. Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
4. The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
5. A heavy lunch makes me sluggish in the afternoon.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLUGGISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sluggish
 a.  lazy; with little movement; very slow
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  A crude grey light, mirrored in the sluggish water and a smell of wet branches over their heads seemed to war against the course of Stephen's thought.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
6  He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish ice.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
7  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  In her thought she traced its course as it ran down the hill to the sluggish Flint River, through the tangled swampy bottoms and up the next hill to Twelve Oaks where Ashley lived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  "I must have been over-tired last night; I think I had a nervous attack in the carriage," she said, as the drink brought clearness to her sluggish thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
10  Some are blacker than the sluggish bear.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
11  It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
12  The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
13  A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
14  They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
15  Holmes's face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched its sluggish drift.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Example Sentence:
1  Technological advance is also a major factor in sluggish wage growth in the United States.
2  I think running water is much more attractive in moor and mountain country than in the fat and sluggish South.
3  The Apple iPad version has some performance issues, such as sluggish movement or audio that might stutter on occasion.
4  A heavy lunch makes me sluggish in the afternoon.
5  Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
6  Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
7  A cocktail of jobless recovery, sluggish growth and low inflation is a major worry for the eurozone and the ECB has urged governments to speed up implementation of structural reforms, vital for Europe's economy to heal.