How to Use slog in a Sentence

slog

1 of 2 verb

• He slogged through the deep snow.
• They slogged their way through the snow.
• She slogged through her work.
• She slogged her way through her work.
• He slogged away at the paperwork all day.
• We've been slogging along for hours.
• An offense that once slogged up and down has quickened the pace.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• But the rebuilding of Route 495 promises to be a much longer slog.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• But times change, and with the Cubs slogging through a first half with a 47-43 record, the patience of the fan base seems to be wearing thin.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2019
• The offense was slogging along and then the Browns went to a two-minute drill and worked without a huddle.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The Pads are slogging through another bad start to the season.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The game was slogging along at Tennessee’s style and pace.
  — Ralph D. Russo, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
• Kicking up endless swirls of dust in the south, then slogging through miles of knee-deep mud or snow in the north.
  — Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
• The skit has persisted in the final weeks of a slogging season.
  — Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• In the Southwest, Phoenix slogged through its hottest summer since records began.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Since then the case has slogged forward with hearings every month.
  — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• But what about the rest of us mere mortals just slogging along through a pregnancy?
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 27 July 2023
• Invariably, his team was slogging up the court, squandering a chance to push the pace, and Stotts had to prod them to charge ahead.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2019
• The top six seeds earn a valuable first-round bye and won’t have to slog through four games in four days in pursuit of a championship.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2021
• Starting pitchers slogged through the first three innings.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 14 July 2019
• Even better than slogging it at the gym or going for a solo walk?
  — Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 15 Dec. 2023
• His team will still have to slog through the lengthy regulatory process.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
• The Ugashik is a muddy world, where fishermen slog through knee-deep muck to secure nets along the edge of the river at low tide.
  — Miranda Weiss, Wired, 13 June 2020
• When the action begins, two men (Montoya and Salinas) are slogging through the desert.
  — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• But the actors really did slog it out in the fake torrential rains for two weeks.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2019
• For the second straight start, Peralta slogged his way through a ragged first inning.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• North Georgia just has to slog through one more wet day before things turn mainly dry for the weekend.
  — Chelsea Prince, ajc, 8 Oct. 2021
• So this is a great way to gear out your alts without needing to slog through 48 more Solstice challenges.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Not every episode was a winner: Lynch stepped away for much of season 2, and the back half is famously hard to slog through.
  — Devan Coggan and Christian Holub, EW.com, 25 June 2023
• But a closer inspection reveals that Young slogged through a tough outing.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024

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slog

2 of 2 noun

• It was a long slog up the mountain.
• It will be a long, hard slog before everything is back to normal.
• Still, the White House faces the prospect of a tough slog in Congress.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022
• Three of the books were good (one was great), but one was a slog.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Two and a half years into it, the 2020s have been a slog.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• That's a good guide to why these deals are such a slog.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2022
• Recent events have only added to the sense that the war will be a long slog.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb and John Hudson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2022
• The combine can be a slog -- there’s a lot of waiting around for the players.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2022
• Alas, the rest of the series lacks the spark of the royal court drama and often feels like a slog.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• From there, the first half became a slog of shooting droughts.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 7 Jan. 2023
• The Titans, however, need to keep their foot on the gas, as last week’s slog at the end of the game showed.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• There’s the eight-month, 162-game slog to attain a playoff spot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Texas’ recovery may still be a slog, but the game has sped up on us.
  — Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
• But this isn’t just a long slog through a painful recovery.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
• Smith acknowledges the long slog, and that much remains to be proven.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2022
• For many in the Boomer generation, work was a long slog.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2022
• But the fighting there has been a back-and-forth, village-by-village slog.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2022
• The Spurs finished the campaign on a brutal slog that featured 40 games in 68 days.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021
• Riding a bike to the top of Independence Pass is a slog.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
• Road trips with kids can be a slog during normal times.
  — Rebecca Soffer, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• And yet, the White House and Democratic leaders are settling in for a longer slog here.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• Every day was a slog through his own guilty conscience.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• In other words, men's flip flops aren't made for long distance slogs.
  — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 25 May 2023
• But its bid for a third in 1990 was a hard slog from the tournament’s opening match, where the champs were shut out by Cameroon.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• Longoria knew that his first game back might be a little bit of a slog.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2022
• For his part, Zaluzhny is girding for a long and bloody slog.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• When the Colts were in the middle of last week’s slog against the Broncos, the penalties, the physical mistakes stuck out like a sore thumb.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2022
• The long slog of the pandemic — now in its 23rd month — has left Jeffrey Hile almost numb.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
• The symbolism of the final 12-play, 34-yard slog can’t be undersold.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2023
• That’s entirely a bad thing, as comfort often trumps dynamic precision on six-hour slogs with the entire family aboard.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024