How to Use slow going in a Sentence

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• It's been slow going — or no going — to Japan for quite some time.
  — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the process has been slow going, and only 71 have been issued so far.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• On Sunday, the road leading to the reserve was slow going for miles.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• On Sunday, the road leading to the reserve was slow going for miles.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The sale is the biggest one so far out of Cannes, where dealmaking has been slow going.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 May 2022
• The work has been slow going, and progress has been incremental.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• But Teter and others acknowledged the work has been slow going.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
• Roads are deep in snow and passage for the hundreds of trucks transporting the food is slow going and can be treacherous.
  — Fox News, 28 Jan. 2022
• The 2022 Canes Film Festival has seen a return of big projects and packages on the Croisette, but dealmaking has been slow going.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2022
• By many accounts, healing has been slow going, and beneath the surface in Rocky Mount, emotions are still raw.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Staci: We’re not known for that, so introducing that option has been slow going.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• It’s also been slow going to expand operations on the docks.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• These negotiations are slow going, but the Poles will be pushovers compared to the United States Senate.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 May 2022
• Distribution deals have been slow going, but hopefully someone will snatch up the indies on this list that don’t yet have a home.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
• But building an alliance with a therapist—or failing to do so—is often slow going.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2022
• But its revenue growth is expected to slow going forward.
  — Alex Heath, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2024
• So far it’s been slow going, though, with companies struggling even with the most basic tasks, like food deliveries.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
• The Arizona plants have been slow going, and the company has deployed hundreds of Taiwanese technicians to expedite the process.
  — Paul Mozur, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• It’s been slow going at Sitka Sound, where about 20 seiners continue to tap on a 67 million-pound herring harvest.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2021
• Since the mall officially emptied out nearly two years ago, progress has been slow going and the property's owners have been tight-lipped about its future.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
• Even when builders wanted to take advantage of the rising prices, many have found the process to be slow going because of various legal and zoning restrictions.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 22 Nov. 2021
• Haney and other supervisors keep pressing for the city to move more homeless people into hotels rooms, but that’s been slow going.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
• Snowfall of an inch to 3 — maybe even 4, in some parts of southeast Michigan — is expected Tuesday, followed by freezing rain, that could make the evening commute home slippery and slow going.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2024
• The '90s hair and makeup is there, sure, but the pace is slow going through the first six episodes made available for review (of 10 total), as each installment frustratingly jumps between timelines.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
• Filling its office space, though, has been relatively slow going, at least compared with the brisk pace of big office deals before the pandemic.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• Shortfalls could be made up for by raising the price of energy at peak times or by having consumers pay for capacity, but so far these efforts have been slow going.
  — Michael R. Davidson, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
• Both Google and Apple hope to build out their ID storage capabilities, but with so many government agencies involved, the process is slow going.
  — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
• While vote-counting in other states was slow going and the results in several key races were still in doubt, Florida’s elections had seemingly gone off without a hitch.
  — Ryan Mills, National Review, 1 Dec. 2022
• Slow to evolve Goldman and other finance titans have publicly signaled their commitment to making their ranks more diverse and inclusive, but the process is still slow going.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 9 May 2023
• Because restoration efforts, petitions, and lawsuits are slow going, in the meantime members of the public have stepped up to help their state’s unofficial mascot.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024