Sentence examples for lethargic start from inspiring English sources

After a lethargic start, the third period featured considerable action.

LETHARGIC START Puyol said the team would have no chance of adding to their four European crowns if they started every match so lethargically.

But the U.S. Open runner-up had a lethargic start, dropping his serve in the seventh game to lose the first set.

Djokovic, seeded third, overcame a lethargic start to beat the American Robby Ginepri, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2.

48 min: A lethargic start to the second half from Liverpool, who need to get their act together and quickly if they want to stay in this tie.

It did also require the Celtics to cooperate by reducing themselves to mere foil, Steve Buckley writes in The Boston Herald, and while there was no doubting James's greatness, the Celtics' lethargic start could be given an assist.

The Knicks have had so many lethargic starts like this, going back to Jeff Van Gundy's days as coach, that the location hardly matters.

Nearly 4 weeks after birth she became lethargic, started vomiting and refused breastfeeding.

Williams, who appears to be over the knee problem that disrupted her tournament preparations, admitted that she had felt "a little lethargic" at the start of the match.

As he has aged Snoop Dogg has become more of a soul man than the liquid (bordering on lethargic) rapper he started out as. Backed by a band, his set was like an R&B revue — slick, cocksure and mature (a word not often associated with Snoop Dogg).

If that tournament left question marks over a "lethargic" Spain, whose starting XI from the final will have an average age of 29 this summer, doubts have also been cast on the effectiveness of a possession-based game in this season's Champions League.