Synonyms

1. dull
2. slow

Sentence Examples

1. The waters here were so still they seemed not to flow at all, as if the whole tributary was holding out against its sluggish descent towards post-industrial smut.
2. He whispered something into her ear as her movements grew sluggish.
3. Its flow was sluggish, almost stagnant like bog water where no air, no flow, and no life could reach it.
4. The one thing he refused to do was ration his food to the point where he would become weak and sluggish.
5. Elsewhere, the deep sluggish waters moved along, silent and black.
6. The monsters drenched in flesh had stood and began a sluggish chase after them.
7. I lie awake while thou sleepest, I weep while thou singest, I am faint with fasting while thou art sluggish and torpid from pure repletion.
8. The place felt lived in, crammed with life and sluggish vitality.
9. The effect Richard had on Byrne was to force his sluggish brain to think once again.
10. No echoes of that discord shall be heard Where Father Tagus rolls, or on the banks Of olive-bordered Betis to the rocks Or in deep caverns shall my plaint be told, And by a lifeless tongue in living words Or in dark valleys or on lonely shores, Where neither foot of man nor sunbeam falls Or in among the poison-breathing swarms Of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile.