Sentence examples for turns sluggish from inspiring English sources

The economy turns sluggish at less than $300 billion.

To old-school philosophers like Jackson, championships are won in wars of attrition where the pace turns sluggish and jump-shooting teams are throttled.

Edberg usually leaps to return serve like a schooled retriever, but he was by turns sluggish and jittery, and when Edberg can't play with precision, he can't play competitively.

So when the Atlantic turns sluggish, it has worldwide impacts: The entire Northern Hemisphere cools, Indian and Asian monsoon areas dry up, North Atlantic storms get amplified, and less ocean mixing results in less plankton and other life in the sea.

Among them: people who want to release a "perfect" product (he says this is usually toxic); and founders who fall so in love with their own technology that they're blind to the imperatives of building a business (in other words, they confuse validation from a small, early group of users as success and don't pay enough attention when user growth turns sluggish).

But official optimism notwithstanding, the economy turned sluggish two years ago.

In striving for spaciousness, the performance sometimes turned sluggish.

The offense turned sluggish when the second unit, with Bill Walker and Roger Mason, took the court.

That CBS is concluding its upfront sales is a bit unexpected because some Web sites of trade publications reported on Thursday and Friday that the 2013-14 upfront market had turned sluggish, slowed or was even approaching an impasse.

Several spec-built projects, which were already in the works when the market turned sluggish, will be completed or will be substantially under way in coming months, and are now being marketed, brokers said.

The business improvement district on 125th Street, Harlem's center of shopping and tourism, conducted a survey whose early results showed that business had turned sluggish for many merchants.