Example Sentences

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Even Caitlin Clark and Iowa — not exactly slowpokes themselves — couldn’t keep up.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.

From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 2023

Dmitriy Katsnelson’s take on the bull reminds me when a friend and I were cooling our heels on a golf course, waiting for the four slowpokes in front of us to move on.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2017

These slowpokes in the left lane are annoying, to be sure, but it still seems extreme to label their behavior illegal.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2015

You know better than I. I'm one of those slowpokes who look on the fancy for taking a hand in other people's affairs as I do on the taste for committing suicide—there's always time.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil