Sentence examples for moving sluggishly from inspiring English sources

"moving sluggishly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person, object, or situation that is moving slowly and without much energy. For example, "The turtle moved sluggishly across the grass."

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The system is still moving sluggishly".

In her first big tournament, the 2006 nationals, she was eliminated on Day 1, moving sluggishly in her bout, punching as if she were underwater.

Shortstop Derek Jeter, who missed a week's worth of games with a strained hamstring, was given today off, after moving sluggishly in the Yankees' 7-6 loss Friday.

Despite a national election that was an international embarrassment, Republicans in Washington have been moving sluggishly, at best, toward electoral reform.

Helen imagined huge vats like those in a brewery — wide, clear tubes with viscous, viral blood moving sluggishly in one direction, while bright, animated, healthy blood rushed eagerly back toward the patient.

Williams, moving sluggishly on a warm and sunny afternoon, missed her first five serves, then lost the first five games on her downbeat way to a 6 -1, 6-3 defeat in the first round.

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Time moves sluggishly.

From 1997 to 2000, for example, the country moved sluggishly.

The stream underfoot moves sluggishly, pooling in a stone depression, splashing over a scatter of rocks.

The batteries in her small portable fan had died, and she moved sluggishly in the heat.

In normal times, this means European companies hesitate to hire people and move sluggishly to respond to opportunities and hazards.

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