Sentence examples for slow- from inspiring English sources

The city can be hectic, so to slow things down and keep a romantic feel, stay on Heybeliada, one of the Princes Islandss that lie just a short ferry ride from the centre of the city.

Rudd said there was no cap or limit on the number of asylum seekers PNG had agreed to take, but he expected over time as people smugglers "got the message" the rate of arrivals would slow.

Unfortunately though, when I see another rider, I have no idea if they are going to slow down, speed up, stop, run over a pedestrian and say it was my fault or do a wheelie down the wrong side of the road.

Big cuts to the budget now have the potential to slow that recovery and hence the recovery of tax revenue.

The worst parts were trying not to [have] a heart attack, although recognising the oncoming symptoms, but not being able to slow down because of the camel, time and your watch ticking.

So, you can imagine when you're wanting to slow down, [but] you can see the checkpoint is a long way away and the camels are behind, it's a bad situation to be in.

For months the US airforce and RAF planes have been heavily involved in air strikes and reconnaissance missions across Iraq that are credited with helping slow the advance of Isis fighters and have now paved the way for ground operations.

At the heart of it, the idea would be to slow the game down a bit.

It might slow Anwar's efforts to tempt disgruntled MPs across the floor.

Chess players, he had admitted, slow down noticeably in their 50s.

These reforms will allow us to slow the extraordinary rate of increase in the prison population and begin to reduce it back to 2008 levels – around 3,000 less than today".