Example Sentences

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The band, who were then aged between 18 and 20, had recently returned from performing in Hamburg, where they had been "slogging 500 stage hours in 90 days", he said.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2022

Steiner, who had been slogging through mud brought on by heavy rains that swamped Resurrection City, didn’t like the optics of some of the movement’s leaders staying in more comfortable digs.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2018

“A lot of times, it’s not a still-intact body,” said Kenny Wesson, a 49-year-old logger who had been slogging through mud.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2014

My correspondent was the wife of an entrepreneur who had been slogging away for six years at a start-up that she called a "money pit" and "marriage destroyer."

From Inc • Apr. 30, 2013

All that Sunday morning we had been slogging away cleaning Carleton’s study, and then, just before lunch Carleton himself strode into the room and said, ‘You’ve had long enough.’

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl