slogged; slogging
1
: to hit hard : beat
2
: to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty
slogger
noun
1
a
: hard persistent work
the endless enervating slog of war—
Michael Gorra
Michael Gorra
b
: a prolonged arduous task or effort
reform will be a hard political slog—M. S. Forbes
M. S. Forbes2
: a hard dogged march or journey
Synonyms
Examples of slog in a Sentence
Verb
He slogged away at the paperwork all day.
She slogged through her work.
She slogged her way through her work.
We've been slogging along for hours.
He slogged through the deep snow.
They slogged their way through the snow.
Noun
It will be a long, hard slog before everything is back to normal.
It was a long slog up the mountain.
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John Hyatt, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2025
The Mavs did beat the short-handed Thunder last week, but Luka-less Dallas has largely been slogging its way through the schedule.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
John Hollinger, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Now, the looming threat of an even longer legal slog has compounded that confusion.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
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Verb
Jones’s rising star on X coincides with the company’s intervention in Jones’s personal bankruptcy case, which has been slogging its way through federal courts since October 2022, after a Connecticut judge ordered Jones to pay $965 million to families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.
—John Hyatt, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2025
The Mavs did beat the short-handed Thunder last week, but Luka-less Dallas has largely been slogging its way through the schedule.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
Miami’s offseason was loaded with bloated contracts for the role players who turned around their season, and the result was two years of mediocrity and a slog of digging their way out.
—John Hollinger, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Now, the looming threat of an even longer legal slog has compounded that confusion.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Slog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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