How to Use snail's pace in a Sentence

snail's pace

noun

• At the time, news about prom help traveled at a snail's pace by word of mouth.
  — Brian Blair, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• But like before, all of a sudden my network returned to a snail's pace.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2017
• Time passes at snail's pace for a tennis player who cannot play.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
• But if the improvements have slowed to a snail's pace in recent weeks -- and went into reverse last week.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
• After starting out at high speeds, the chase continued at a snail's pace for the better part of an hour around the time the driver's back tire went flat, a KTRK video showed.
  — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• The legal evolution is moving at a snail's pace compared to the creativity and the drive that a lot of women have to make these kinds of events happen.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 11 July 2019
• The episodic format advances at a snail's pace -- unlike movie biographies that by necessity race to the good stuff.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
• In the end, Atlas was a big, wobbly humanoid that moved at a snail's pace and fell without warning, sometimes without much reason (a slight incline of a few degrees took down one).
  — Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2016
• Perseverance's six wheels propel it forward at a top speed of .1 miles per hour, which sounds like a snail's pace by Earth's standards, but is lightning fast on Mars 141 million miles away.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2021
• Due to budget constraints, the Mars program likely move at a snail's pace, according to available flight manifests.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2016
• In exchange, House Republicans have agreed to waive bill readings which have slowed floor action to a snail's pace, keeping state lawmakers in the chamber for hours longer in a pandemic.
  — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2021
• Teen drivers either are overly cautious, crawling along at a snail's pace and gum up the traffic or those darned no-good teens of a brazen nature are overly careless and cut off other drivers and run red lights.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• Several people who have submitted applications, but haven't gotten a hearing yet, complained to the board of the snail's pace in awarding licenses.
  — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
• The negotiations appear to be moving at a snail's pace, and each round leaves a sense of deja vu, with Barnier lamenting the lack of movement, and Davis appealing for more European flexibility.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2017
• Previous contract negotiations have moved at a snail's pace, though.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Puerto Rico's bankruptcy case has been moving at a snail's pace compared to typical bankruptcies.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
• Heavy on narration and too light on the engaging dialogue that animated Mbue's first novel, the plot begins with a big bang and then unfolds, sometimes disjointedly, at a snail's pace, tragedies piling up.
  — Angela Ajayi, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The agency has essentially ground to a snail's pace because new leadership has discouraged new ideas from employees and slowed down existing initiatives.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017

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