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slow-moving

[ sloh-moo-ving ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

proceeding with or characterized by slow, sluggish, or leisurely movement or activity.

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First recorded in 1635–45

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“I was expecting to be turned on, but I got through about the fourth chapter and found it very slow moving,” says Acworth.

Decades later, in 1974, a slow-moving train derailed, crashing in the same spot but resulting in no deaths or injuries.

But I do think I notice a few differences over time, some subtle movements upon a slow-moving clock.

Beyond the river, caramel plains rolled away to the distant horizon, spotted with acacia trees and slow-moving giraffe.

Observing the slow-moving procession was akin to watching a tranquil dream float by.

Perhaps it was his clothes that had given him a strange new grace, for in the old days he was a ponderous, slow-moving fellow.

Since the day before, he had been turning an idea over in his slow-moving mind, and now he sought to put it into words.

A slow moving mass of red and brown and white met the inquiring gaze of the boys.

How little they could divine the future or what the immutable, slow-moving course of little things could mean to each.

A quicker figure slipped before the square, slow-moving woman; it was Mary Burne, running down the stairs, dressed to go out.

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