sluggishly
- a word derived from sluggish.
Example Sentences
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Sluggishly in my dead frame fluttered a something.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph
Sluggishly, reluctantly, impotently, the spruce logs followed one another round and round the circuit of the great stone pot.
From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
Sluggishly, to be sure, and rather raggedly, but it undoubtedly moved, and as undoubtedly it moved independently of the wind.
From The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Leinster, Murray
Sluggishly it revolved, as upon an axis, and then, in the grip of a random cross-current, swung heavily shoreward.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
Sluggishly they threw the golden ears over their shoulders to the ground, where it was collected by the women and carried to the shed on the beach—a long roof of leaves, without walls.
From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix
