Sentence examples for sluggish said from inspiring English sources

"We were a little sluggish," said Scott Stevens, the Devils' captain, referring to the first period.

"The sales were a bit sluggish," said Tom Cocola, a Department of Transportation spokesman.

"Europe remains very sluggish," said Daniel Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

"The recovery is still pretty sluggish," said Udo Ludwig, an economist at IWH, a German economic institute.

But revenue growth remained sluggish, said the F.D.I.C.'s acting chairman, Martin Gruenberg, as JPMorgan Chase's multibillion-dollar trading loss weighed on the quarter's results.

MARKET OVERVIEW The real estate market in Buenos Aires is stable but sluggish, said Roberto Guichon, director of the Buenos Aires company Guichon Propiedades.

"For a long time the economy was a bit sluggish," says the local head of a French equipment manufacturer.

"When we think of reptiles, we think of animals that literally creep along the ground and are relatively sluggish," says paleontologist David Unwin of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Computer models suggest that the winds would slack off, leaving the oceans sluggish, says marine geologist Birger Schmitz of the University of Göteborg, Sweden.

FNB Bank in Johnstown, Pa., with $8.6 billion in assets, expanded its loan book by 5% last year, "but quite honestly, loan demand from our customers is sluggish," says Gregory Winger, senior vice president.

These changes in gravity observed over time show that the planet's interior is "not too fluid and not too sluggish," says geophysicist John Wahr of the University of Colorado in Boulder.