Sentence examples for great slug from inspiring English sources

The show's title — "Nocturne of the Limax maximus," or night music of the great slug (commonly called the leopard slug) — comes from a form that she happened upon.

The huge dark snout was moving nearly five hundred feet a minute and the rest of the flow behind was coming twice as fast, making roll waves as it piled forward against itself — this great slug, as geologists would describe it, this discrete slug, this heaving violence of wet cement.

All the pitchers in the major leagues have a zillion strikeouts, and all the hitters have piles of home runs or a great slugging percentage.

The nerves of private creditors and investors are frazzled, and the banks must refinance great slugs of maturing debt in 2009.Although once it seemed likely that the banks would escape wholesale regulatory change, that is now impossible.

The biggest protection for elderly people has not come from much-debated perks like winter fuel payments, but from the protection of two great slugs of public expenditure: state pensions and the National Health Service.

Eddie Mathews was — until Mike Schmidt came along — the greatest slugging third baseman ever.

Murray, for example, is considered, after Mickey Mantle, the greatest slugging switch-hitter ever.

Less a preserved facade than a completely trampled building, the grade II-listed Kingsway bus depot has had a hundred flats foisted upon it in the form of a great orange slug, held over the original stone temple on chunky zigzag columns.

Walking the streets of Somers Town, one of the most deprived wards in the UK, it's hard to miss the 1,000,000 sq ft pile, signalled from all directions by the great aluminium slug that slithers across its rooftop and the orange tiled walls that loom above the streets.

Back and forth they went, like great boxers slugging it out, though — this was somewhat disappointing — no actual slugging took place.

The fatal weakness of the great Sox slugging teams was not-quite-good-enough pitching rather than Williams' failure to hit a home run every time he came to bat.