How to Use slow in a Sentence

slow

1 of 3 adjective

• The buyers were slow to act, and the house was sold to someone else.
• The first few chapters are slow, but after that it gets better.
• Business is slow during the summer.
• He was a quiet boy who seldom spoke, and some people thought he was a little slow.
• The slowest of those 12 goes first, then the 11th, etc.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• The low and slow heat is the perfect way to cook green beans.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023
• Karol’s journey to the top of the charts has been slow and steady over the past decade.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• For us, it’s always been slow and steady wins the race.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
• The lines of the song had always followed the same slow, melancholy arcs.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• But it’s been on a slow, steady climb in more recent months.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• The second season was to depict Michael’s long, slow crawl back to life.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Davis shook off a slow shooting start to score 16 points and grab 14 rebounds with five blocks and three steals.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• The graceful way to handle this is to undertake a slow fade.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2023
• Set it to high and cook for five to six hours, or opt for a slower simmer on low for six to eight hours.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• Winds shift to the northwest in the afternoon, but cool air will be slow to arrive.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• One more slow start and the Heat might tighten up beyond repair.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• Foreign stereotypes of French restaurants tend to paint the service as slow.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• Coach Rick Dotson said the team had a heart-to-heart meeting after the slow start and began working on the basics.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2023
• But while Western rivals have pledged billions of dollars, many of their projects have been slow to get off the ground.
  — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
• Add milk in a slow, steady stream, whisking until smooth, about 2 minutes.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2023
• Abbott stopped sending buses in the winter and then resumed in the spring but at a slower pace.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• That could leave sales a bit slower for the quarter than in the second quarter of this year when all the sales are reported.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• In contrast, Kentucky appeared to be a step slow following the long bus ride.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
• With only 15 minutes of prep time, this recipe lets the collard greens cook with ham hocks low and slow in your trusty slow cooker.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
• The mode of transport is important too: Airplanes move too fast and fly too high, and travel on foot is too slow and too low to the ground.
  — Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
• Very hard birthday—the slow downhill roll into your grave begins.
  — Jill Mapes, Pitchfork, 20 Nov. 2023
• With slow ticket sales, the production failed after four shows.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• The Browns held their first training camp practice with pads on Friday and continued their slow ramp up.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 28 July 2023
• The slow simmer and reduction have changed them from a hasty, easy pantry meal to something fabulous.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2024
• The slow rolling waves at Ka‘anapali Beach mean days spent splashing, floating, and swimming. Lū‘aus, rooftop stargazing, and golf also rank among the highlights.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023

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slow

2 of 3 adverb

• My computer is working slow.
• But the Terps were a step slow all game, and the win by Michigan was no fluke.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2023
• Turkey has fought a slow-burning war with the PKK for decades.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• Fallston came out of the gate slow, trailing 9-4 in the opening set.
  — Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2022
• For minor clogs and slow-flowing drains, the gel works in 15 to 30 minutes.
  — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2022
• The deeper that warmth goes, the more fuel can flow to a slow-moving storm like Ian.
  — Scott Dance and Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Sugary, windblown snow in parts of the trail made the race slower, Diehl said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2023
• The two teams need to converge, but this is a slow-going effort.
  — Patrick Ostiguy, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• To some, with his how-slow-can-you-go body movements, Lowry is a dinosaur.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
• This one started slow as both teams put up three points each in the first quarter.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
• The caterpillar is always the stodgy, slow-moving thing confined to the ground.
  — Rose Eveleth, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2022
• Sephardic eggs are slow-cooked so that whites become a creamy brown color.
  — Ethel G. Hofman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• But that's a lot between now and then and sometimes things go slower.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• For the second straight year, the game started slow and ended with a bang for Chula Vista (4-1).
  — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• And the data doesn't show any signs of a coming slow down or any signs of likely action.
  — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2023
• Watch the video to learn how to fix a slow-draining sink with just two ingredients.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
• If slow-cooking is your thing, Le Creuset is at your service.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 2 Feb. 2023
• The salmon will be slow-cooked on the grill after it is drizzled with just a little virgin olive oil.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Rain chances return over the next couple days as a slow-moving front slides into the area.
  — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
• When increasing your fiber intake, go slow—you’ll want to give your body a chance to adapt.
  — Jennifer Fields, Fortune Well, 27 May 2023
• Block ice will melt slower and keep your cooler cold for longer.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• Air fryers might not be new anymore, but one with the ability to steam and slow-cook too?
  — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
• The slow-moving sharks, which like to dwell near the sea floor in warm, shallow waters, are – for the most part – harmless to humans.
  — Nell Lewis; Video By Angus Watson, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• The hinges aren’t as sturdy as some of the other slow-close hinges featured in our article.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• Go slow: Quigley says that a lot of people tend to start their run too fast, which can lead to burning out quickly.
  — Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
• Williams said the Suns were playing slow with perhaps his fastest player, Cameron Payne, watching from the bench.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
• Miller missed his first four shots before a layup with 6:27 left in the half helped kick-start a slow-moving but effective end to the half.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 7 Jan. 2023
• The Lancers, who have been a notoriously slow-starting team through the years, never trailed in the first set.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
• To be sure, the Senate as an institution tends to be more cautious and slow-moving than the House.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• But when in doubt—when nothing else is drawing a strike—fire out a wacky rigged Senko, work it back painfully slow, and hang on.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024

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slow

3 of 3 verb

• The extra weight slowed the truck.
• The car slowed and gradually came to a stop.
• The remnants of Ophelia make the closest pass and the storm slows to a crawl.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• The result: slowing growth and less wealth to go around.
  — Dake Kang, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• One of the simplest ways to slow down is by taking breaks.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2024
• But in the past couple of years, things have been slowing down.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• This is not the first legal attempt to slow the project.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The pace of consumer credit growth has been slowing though in the past year.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• As their vehicle slows down, the white car slows down and starts to turn around.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2023
• The goal of the lawsuits is to slow down, or stop the process from going into effect.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 12 June 2023
• The video itself wasn’t fake, but it had been slowed down to make Pelosi appear drunk.
  — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
• The old woman, a walking stick in her right hand, picks up her pace for a few steps, then slows again.
  — Andy Carey, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Everybody’s going to try to find the best way to attempt to slow us down.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• And then the pandemic hit, and everything slowed to a crawl.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2024
• The pace slowed on the backstretch, and around the turn National Treasure started to make his move.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• If Matthew Stafford continues to play well and the defense can slow down Jackson, the Rams could win.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Recovery meant slowing down and spending much more time at home and much less time on the job.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
• Experts widely expect the economy to slow but not shrink over the next year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
• But time is short, and if opponents can slow down the bill’s passage, the country could default.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• Some parts of the economy have felt the squeeze — existing home sales have slowed, for instance.
  — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Still, some hotel groups say reservations slowed in the first weeks of summer, owing to the steep rise in prices for flights and rooms.
  — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• Eventually the lemur slows down and the officers scoop it up in a towel.
  — Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• Those job openings have been shrinking faster in recent months as the job market has slowed.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• But by the final three months of 2023, the pace of sales had slowed, and automakers’ optimism had turned to caution.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The injury slowed his early progress, opening the door for Moss to seize the backup quarterback job outright in the spring.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Now people are discovering the main version from the sped-up or slowed one.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023
• The long-standing partnership shows no signs of slowing down.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 27 July 2023
• The driver slowed down after striking John, then sped off as his friend approached the truck, trying to read the license plate.
  — Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
• Asked before the game about slowing Doncic down, Kings coach Mike Brown signaled there isn’t just one way.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
• From a side road, a truck driver begins to cross U.S. 441, slowing but failing to fully stop at a stop sign.
  — Irfan Uraizee, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024