Sentence examples for tortoise-like pace from inspiring English sources

The council's tortoise-like pace is only one of its shortcomings.

Why must publishing continue to move at a tortoise-like pace when it comes to tackling diversity?

On Friday, the plow, using jets of water to cut through the silt and clay, began threading the cables into the trench at the tortoise-like pace of about 325 feet per hour.

UPDATE: While I was dawdling along at my usual tortoise-like pace, Andrew (The Hare) Sullivan zipped past me with his fifteenth post of the day, making some of the same points from a different, but not all that different, perspective.

So why the tortoise-like pace?

Well, setting aside any value of the human element issues for the moment, how about as a practical matter, instant replay would slow down an already tortoise-like pace?

He likens the bureaucracy to a Roman legion that will protect itself in tortoise-like formation.

And what is our thanks for all this steady, tortoise-like effort?

Hollande's rise has been tortoise-like, and to his opponents, unexpected.

He should, though, be a fan of the Flaming Lips, whose tortoise-like ascent to greatness is unprecedented.

But tortoise-like, it earned back its capitalization in small, steady bites -- averaging about $100,000 in net revenue per week.