Example Sentences

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Sometimes rushing headlong through the decades, other times plodding turgidly through the minutes, the show has been destination television since 2016 — a sumptuous, low-stakes diversion in an era of bewildering turmoil.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023

He described the motion picture as “a near-three-hour endurance run of gloomy photography and turgidly staged, emotionally empty two-way conversations, all seemingly designed to sap cast and viewers' combined will to live.”

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2022

Much as Schafer and his Kickstarter compatriots sought to break free from a world of the turgidly familiar, Shay longs for new adventures.

From Slate • May 1, 2015

I get letters from people telling me I 'inspired' them to go to university and read history – I got one today, Australian girl saying she'd discovered history at university is really turgidly boring.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012

Like a kind of summer molasses, it poured turgidly forth upon the cinnamon-dusty road.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury