Sentence examples for slower man from inspiring English sources

The stairs were at the end of a short hall, and they took them two at a time, the slower man turning his head, just briefly, and looking at me as if I held a gun.

Most teams run zone defenses instead of slower man-to-man, and relentless full-court presses and traps speed up the opposing offense.

When slower men refused him passage, he smashed his oars against their hulls.

So quick off the dribble against taller, slower men, the 6-9 Martin seemed to have a step on the 7-foot, 260-pound Duncan.

There was no false start, no anticlimax, no great debate, no bare-chested Bolt howling and slamming his hands against a wall as slower men took off without him.

SLOW MAN, by J. M. Coetzee.

Slow Man, by J. M. Coetzee (Penguin Press; $24.95).

"Slow Man" enacts a kind of religious correction of its maimed protagonist, the cannily named Paul Rayment.

Well, he told me, he felt sure he was the slowest man.

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