Sentence examples for sluggish out from inspiring English sources

They were even more sluggish out of the blocks yesterday, and the Dogs made them pay.

The Kings looked sluggish, out of place and had little hustle compared to the Canucks.

In 2012, 2013 and again last year, it was sluggish out of the gates, fuelling concerns that much worse was to come.

Needing to finish in the first four in his heat to secure a place in today's semi-finals, Chambers was sluggish out of the blocks and laboured home fifth in 6.78sec.

As in New Jersey on Wednesday, Mourinho's side were painfully sluggish out of the blocks yet rediscovered some vigor and verve in the second period and were rewarded when Victor Moses equalised on 64 minutes.

"I felt sluggish out there, a bit tired, but fair play to Charlie - he was brilliant," commented Immaculata club boxer Fitzpatrick.

And the current fairly sluggish sorting-out of Thyssen's peculiarly diverse collection of 336 businesses would not be speeded up.On the other hand, a limited deal would still do some good--especially for Krupp, which, according to Salomon Brothers, lost DM208m on the 4.9m tonnes of steel it produced last year, compared with the DM242m profit that Thyssen made on its output of 9.3m tonnes.

The Fed's minutes acknowledged that consumer spending remains sluggish when factoring out the impact of the summer boost from Cash For Clunkers, a trend borne out in retail sales data released Wednesday that showed a 1.5% drop due mostly to the inability to recover from a steep drop in auto sales once the program ended.

But core inflation (stripping out food and fuel) has picked up in both Chile and Mexico despite sluggish growth, points out Alfredo Thorne, the chief Latin American economist at JPMorgan Chase, a bank.

Rating: 5.5 Coach Jurgen Klinsmann The U.S. team came out sluggish in the first half.

Pavement, on Sunday night at Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn, started out sluggish and indistinct.