How to Use slow-walk in a Sentence

slow-walk

verb

• The pair then were seen slow-walking to the stage as Em asked what the plan was.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024
• Valley slow-walks the evolution of the city and surrounding fields forward.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 27 July 2023
• The nine justices have already boosted the former president by slow-walking the case.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
• The man who has slow-walked and botched the Hunter Biden investigation has now been named the special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 Aug. 2023
• In the Senate, unanimity will be required to move the legislation along quickly, since one senator has the power to slow-walk the path to passage.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Critics say the court has slow-walked the case to the point where a trial before the November election is now unlikely, no matter how the justices rule on Trump’s immunity claim.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• Google has had generative AI technology for years, but out of caution was slow-walking it.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• One reason Trump’s critics complain the Supreme Court slow-walked its decision is because the justices have ruled quickly in other high-profile cases.
  — Bart Jansen, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2024
• Democrats have chided the GOP for slow-walking accountability for Santos.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Small protests have broken out in opposition to a Parliament proposal to expand the draft to include younger men, though so far, Parliament has slow-walked the measure.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• The commission has suggested adding more process — requiring more time and more review — that slow-walks any City Council action on public safety with red tape.
  — Donna Lieberman, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• Moreover, says Bodner and a dozen sources in law enforcement who talked to me for this story, Snapchat seemed to slow-walk police investigations after fake pills killed young buyers.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• Local governments can attract a billion dollars in foreign investments and then slow-walk approvals for those very projects.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
• But the settlement was imperiled within weeks, the whistleblowers alleged, because the agency intended to slow-walk the funding.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Orban has signaled support for the two nations’ NATO applications, but his government has slow-walked the issue.
  — Steven Erlanger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• But in general election terms, impeachment is a boon for the Democrats, which is why McCarthy is desperately trying to slow-walk these simpleminded drives for vengeance.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
• The State Department has to sign off when Israel uses that money to buy large weapons or tranches of ammunition, so the administration could find ways to object to or slow-walk the delivery of weapons.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Some lawyers accuse prosecutors of slow-walking cases against veterans in hopes that the local outcry will quiet.
  — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• Drugmakers are slow-walking products to market to get around President Joe Biden's plan to lower medication prices.
  — Nacha Cattan Bloomberg News, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
• From the outset, Cannon has slow-walked the process, repeatedly granting Trump’s legal team an unusual benefit of the doubt and ensuring that the case wouldn’t go to trial before the November election.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• Davidson also testified to believing Cohen was slow-walking the payout, a suspicion Cohen confirmed on the stand.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 14 May 2024
• The trial has already been postponed for more than a year as defense attorneys accuse the prosecution of slow-walking the disclosure of evidence through discovery.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 24 July 2024
• While the allegations piled up, the women accused then-Sheriff Bill Gore of protecting his deputy by slow-walking the department investigation.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• The Treasury Department slow-walked the implementation of the sourcing requirements, allowing the credit to go into effect without restrictions for three months.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Critics have accused her of intentionally slow-walking the proceedings.
  — Erin Doherty, Axios, 15 July 2024
• The campaign has drawn a coalition of the frustrated that cuts across ideological lines, including fed-up ratepayers and climate activists accusing the utilities of slow-walking the transition away from fossil fuels.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• Reports say that the State Department is slow-walking several key measures responding to Beijing’s misbehavior.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 June 2023
• Manchin has complained the credits are unnecessary and wasteful and accused the administration of slow-walking the approval of leases for domestic energy production.
  — Luke Broadwater, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Then–Secretary of State Clinton was accused by her opponents of slow-walking the appropriate military countermeasures, costing lives.
  — Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• Environmentalists accuse regulators of slow-walking new listings to appease critics and say Congress provides too little funding to fulfill the act’s mission.
  — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024