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How to use sluggishly in a sentence

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Their attention definitely was not on this match as they started sluggishly, allowing the home side to dictate matters.
Europe has also maintained its prosperity, and although its economies are growing sluggishly, they are growing.
The creatures play an important role in the changing shape and composition of the ocean floor, as they sluggishly spring-clean the seabed.
The plane staggered and started to climb, slowly, sluggishly, wobbling terrifyingly.
On the other side of him, men, women, and children were rousing themselves from sleep and moving sluggishly to the fire to get warm.
The mirror on the wall vibrated with every beat of the footsteps, and sluggishly, Lena registered her own shaking image.
The car may not start well and works rather sluggishly until the engine warms up.
The group seemed very irritable after that unpleasant sleep and they moved sluggishly around the desert.
If a valve starts running sluggishly over the years because of media that crystallize out or other contaminants, the motor current will increase.
Run water in every sink and observe whether it drains freely or sluggishly.
By definition, a variable that is persistent responds more sluggishly in the short run, other things being equal.
In this occurrence, within 10 minutes of the striking, the master of the Explorathor recognized that the vessel was responding sluggishly.
In particular, it appears that some Member States may be adjusting to economic shocks and long-term economic developments only very sluggishly.
As the system moved sluggishly toward closure, these students continued to live at the schools.
The cyclical rebound of the euro-area economy took place both later and more sluggishly than in other industrial economies.
If the sash makes contact with an obstacle or when it is running sluggishly, the current consumption of the motor will increase.
Waking up from its slumber in cool waters, it sluggishly walks around, often opening its mouth to catch the banana thrown by the woman walking along with her.
Vincent shrugged sluggishly before plopping back down on the leather sofa.
Blood pumped out of her wounds and sluggishly oozed down her body.
It looks like a yellowish-brown stew flowing sluggishly over red-stained rocks.
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In the shifting breeze it swayed sluggishly, heavily, as if riding at anchor like a logy ship of the air.
On examination the peroneal muscles reacted but sluggishly to faradic irritation.
Rorke rose sluggishly, groggily, staggeringly, to the summons for the sixth round.
He came out of it sluggishly, to find the relief from the dreadful pressure almost as stupefying as the deceleration itself.
Crane watched Lauzanne go lazily, sluggishly down to the post for his race.
It was then, for much of its distance, rather a dismal stream, sluggishly winding through marshes lined with alders.
In either case, they explain how it is that we have a world moving so sluggishly.
My mind, from sluggishly hibernating for the winter, became a dynamo of activity.
The water ran into it sluggishly, and drained out half a mile below over muddy shallows.
You're sluggishly satisfied to go jogging along in the same old ruts that humanity has worn deep for centuries.
The men came to sluggishly, their reactions pathetic and confused.
A stream may flow so sluggishly that the water loses its clearness.
And that current will flow, sluggishly or rapidly, towards war.
But Merdle, as usual, oozed sluggishly and muddily about his drawing-room, saying never a word.
As she righted sluggishly, the mainmast swayed drunkenly in the air but did not fall.
The river narrowed and flowed sluggishly between the banks which were luxuriant with tropical growth.
They pulled together, making fast at each turn on the cleats, and the hidden weight rose sluggishly.
When removed in a dry test tube, they began to move about sluggishly.
The club tipped the ball, and it rolled sluggishly for a couple of feet.
Passion will choose his own time to rush upon the scene, and lingers sluggishly behind when an appropriate adjustment of events would seem to summon his appearance.
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