How to Use sluggish in a Sentence

sluggish

adjective

• The game picked up after a sluggish start.
• The hour delay caused both teams to be sluggish out of the gate.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2022
• The Stars shook off a sluggish start to handle the Panthers 5-1.
  — Stefan Stevenson, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
• Sims is off to a sluggish start, throwing a pick in each of the first two games.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2022
• The sluggish start prompted the Nets to part ways with coach Steve Nash this week.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2022
• Mooresville got off to a sluggish start, turning the ball over twice in the first four minutes of the game.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2022
• The Latitude 7030 found itself in the front half of a rather sluggish pack.
  — PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
• After a sluggish start to the season, the Nuggets have won seven games in a row and 17 of their past 20 games.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
• Ham had approached Westbrook about the change as the team tries to shake its sluggish start.
  — Brian Hall, ajc, 29 Oct. 2022
• Missing sleep can lead to more than just a sluggish day.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
• In both games, a sluggish first period set the pace for the remainder of the game.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
• But the pace of surgeries there was also too sluggish for his taste.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• Another flat, sluggish start like this one, and the Sun will be sunk.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2022
• Green is far from blameless for the sluggish pace numbers.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 7 Jan. 2023
• The sun came out again, inflamed the wet kunai grass and dried the earth whose moisture rose in sluggish clouds of mist.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Ditch that sluggish laptop and upgrade to a desktop on the cheap.
  — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• Only on the way home did my thoughts begin to feel sluggish, like a fog was rolling across my brain.
  — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
• State politicians are aware of this problem but have been sluggish to act.
  — Leah Rubin Shen, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• No one likes to go to a restaurant and endure sluggish service.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• But in this game against a team ranked No. 12 at the time, first-time starter Brooks Bollinger and the Badgers bit back after a sluggish start.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2022
• Beaverton coach Kathy Naro isn’t worried about the sluggish start.
  — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2023
• One of the market's hottest sectors is having a sluggish start to back-to-school season.
  — WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Buccaneers have got off to a sluggish start, but Brady is confident the team can turn it around.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• Ghastliest of all is the scene in which, sluggish with booze and pills, she is ferried into the hotel suite of John F. Kennedy.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
• There have been times this season when the Golden State Warriors have gotten off to sluggish starts on the road.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2023
• In our testing, both versions got to 60 mph in a sluggish 8.6 seconds.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2022
• After struggling to get ahead of the Nets after a sluggish second quarter, Jones came off the bench and spurred the Clippers to take the lead.
  — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
• Apple needed the iPhone 16 to be a big seller after years of sluggish iPhone sales.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
• Jackson carried the load Monday, getting just enough help from his defense after a sluggish start.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
• Sunday’s outcome showed Uruguayans’ growing discontent with the government’s failure to reverse a decade of sluggish economic growth and contain crime over the last five years.
  — Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024