slow march
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Wilson also voiced his displeasure at Lululemon’s expansion into new non-workout categories, posting about his “sadness for lululemon’s slow march to becoming The Gap with cheap acrylic sweaters.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
The overly literal, shapeless nature of the storytelling takes its toll in the latter half of the series, which flattens out into a long, slow march to a foregone conclusion.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022
To a casual visitor, the 56-floor Two Union Square building looks well ahead of the pack in downtown Seattle’s slow march back to the office.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022
To borrow the well-worn metaphor of another Briton, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, Brown was the fox and Wintour was the hedgehog in their slow march to the top.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2019
Officers sip from coffee cups and grip lunch bags as we make the slow march up to work.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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