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
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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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Cap’s sub-franchise within the MCU may be where Marvel Studios’ version of a 1970s conspiracy thriller gets slotted (see 2014’s Winter Soldier), but this feels way more like a boilerplate ’90s action movie that semi-mindlessly slogs its way from one set piece to the next.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
Heather Knight, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Atlanta began a 13-day slog of a road trip on Sunday night with a rout of the spiraling Toronto Raptors, but the opposition gets much tougher from here, with the Denver Nuggets, the two L.A. teams and Phoenix over the next five games.
—John Hollinger, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Verb
With a party line vote, 50-47, the Senate launched the cumbersome budget process late Tuesday and by Wednesday was slogging through an initial 50 hours of debate.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Cap’s sub-franchise within the MCU may be where Marvel Studios’ version of a 1970s conspiracy thriller gets slotted (see 2014’s Winter Soldier), but this feels way more like a boilerplate ’90s action movie that semi-mindlessly slogs its way from one set piece to the next.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
After the Tubbs fire, Santa Rosa created a permitting office that was designed to ferry rebuilding homeowners past the bureaucratic slog that can slow projects in normal times.
—Heather Knight, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Atlanta began a 13-day slog of a road trip on Sunday night with a rout of the spiraling Toronto Raptors, but the opposition gets much tougher from here, with the Denver Nuggets, the two L.A. teams and Phoenix over the next five games.
—John Hollinger, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Slog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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