Sentence example with the word 'sluggish'

sluggish

abeyant, crawling, dragging, foot-dragging, indifferent, loitering, procrastinatory, slow as slow, staggering, thick-witted, wooden

Definition adj. moving slowly

Last update: August 16, 2015


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He is a sluggish boy as he does his work too slowly.   [adjective]

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Isoprene, as sluggish acyclic diene, reacts in the presence of the anhydrous nickel catalyst, but the selectivity is not satisfactory.   [adjective]

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The sloth 's greenish color and its sluggish habits provide an effective camouflage: hanging quietly, the sloth resembles a bundle of leaves.   [adjective]

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"Some are blacker than the sluggish bear."   [adjective]

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He leapt on to the swaying bridge and across to the farther edge, almost without a glance at the sluggish black water under his feet.   [adjective]

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At length, to my great joy, I came to a wide bayou, and plunging[Pg 139] in, had soon stemmed its sluggish current to the other side.   [adjective]

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The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea.   [adjective]

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Bayou Buf is a sluggish, winding streamone of those stagnant bodies of water common in that region, setting back from Red River.   [adjective]

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A bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had torn up from her rotting liver by fits of loud groaning vomiting.   [adjective]

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