Example Sentences

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The tiny, flattened and sluglike creatures can cause gastrointestinal problems, weight loss and lethargy when a person eats an infected fish.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

He rules a tribe of sluglike imps who are festooned with rattles, bells and amulets, and ain't no sugar plums.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2011

Similarly, many of us are sluglike about responding “No” to an R.S.V.P. for an event that we know we ultimately will not attend.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011

Mr. Price’s almost indescribable ceramics are revered by fellow artists for dissolving the chasm between art and craft, while his lumpy, blobby, sluglike new sculptures are quintessential examples of biomorphic or formless art.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2010

She resembled nothing so much as one of the sluglike little Mexican hairless dogs we had seen on the Isthmus.

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward