Sentence examples for sluggish place from inspiring English sources

CLOUGH -- It does look like a sluggish place.

UNTIL recently, the southern Russian city of Nalchik was a sluggish place where the local authorities more or less kept the lid on ethnic and religious tension.

A fever that first surfaced 19 days ago had interrupted the training of Funny Cide, after the gelding turned in a sluggish third-place performance in the Haskell at Monmouth Park.

The sluggish pace puts the country "in a place we haven't been in a very long time," said William H. Frey, senior demographer at the Brookings Institution.

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

So far, these central banks have held back, in view of the big cuts to public spending taking place, sluggish growth and idle resources.

Greig Laidlaw's stunning one-man show booked sluggish Scotland's place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals after a mighty scare by already-eliminated Samoa.

To get a sluggish fire going, place two or three additional coals in a small metal can and add lighter fluid.

It feels a sluggish, inert sort of place, where shoppers are almost outnumbered by the clusters of kids in hoodies gathered around the statue of AE Housman, Bromsgrove's most famous literary export.

Currency traders said there is little mystery about the dollar's fall, with the blame placed on sluggish economic growth in the United States and lower American interest rates--factors that reduce returns on dollar-denominated investments and make investments elsewhere more attractive.

A victory would have inched the Rangers (29-29-9) within a point of the idle Boston Bruins, who are in eighth place in the sluggish Eastern Conference.