slowpoke

Example Sentences

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But if your heart is a slowpoke the rest of the time, your health could be at risk.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2022

“She was not a slowpoke grown-up,” Cleary wrote in “Ramona and Her Mother.”

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Jones, the first-round draft pick, had trouble hanging onto the ball at times, but he had a strong arm and was no slowpoke, like Manning.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2019

Four decades after the slowpoke era of "Drive 55," when a national energy crisis slowed speed limits to a crawl, gas prices have leveled off and automobiles have become far more fuel-efficient.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2014

And I hate to say it but Adah is just as ornery and bent on destruction, in her own slowpoke way.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver