Sentence examples for the slows from inspiring English sources
adjective
Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
After a few months, disgusted by the slowness of McClellan ("He has the slows," as Lincoln put it), he demoted him to the command of the Army of the Potomac alone.
The Slows have manners of their own.
Politicians like to refer to the Slows as being deviant.
I was always amazed by how fast news reached the Slows.
Tempos were moderate, the fasts never too fast, the slows never dragging weight.
It is still unclear whether that logjam -- and with it the slows -- is now broken.
The emotionality of the Slows had the strange characteristic of clinging to me like a stain.
I can't say that I'd never envisioned this possibility when I chose to study the Slows.
The morality of the Slows had an undeniably rational basis, under those conditions.
It is sometimes possible to identify rational thought among the Slows, but their emotional exaggeration dilutes it.
The president had grown deeply frustrated with Gen. George B. McClellan, the commander of the Army of the Potomac, who Lincoln complained had "a case of the slows".
