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slowly

[ sloh-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a slow manner; at a slow speed:
Sauté the peppers slowly.
I drove slowly back home.

See slow.

Origin of slowly¹

First recorded in 1310–50; Middle English slawliche, slawly; slow ( def ), -ly ( def )

Slowly, two were opened up, and in 2010 the regional government opened all four Brogpa villages in a push for tourism.

Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.

In my eyes she killed those people… exposing a gay person like this is akin to torturing him slowly to death.

Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.

“The lies of the government shocked us,” says Fatima, as the tears flow slowly from her eyes and down her cheek.

Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.

Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.

The lovers got up, with only a silent protest, and walked slowly away somewhere else.

He spoke clearly and slowly, well knowing that some among the natives would understand him.

The conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.

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