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How to use slog in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Slog means a long, tedious walk or march. Example: “It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.”

Examples of slog by meaning

nounA hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.

  • Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times
  • England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport
  • There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times

verbTo strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

  • It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.

More sentences with slog

  • We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.From the entry through
  • We had to slog our way through muddy fields.From the entry one's way
  • He slogged across the muddy field.From the entry muddy
  • Others refuse to ever DNF, slowly slogging through even the worst of books.2021 August 10, Danika Ellis, “I'm Breaking Up With 3-Star Reads”, in Book Riot, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2021. From the entry DNF
  • I wasn’t cursed to some joyless Sisyphean slog.2025 May 25, Sam Graham-Felsen, “Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original…. From the entry sisyphean
  • Robinson says that by the time he was cast as Baldrick, he was almost 40 and slogging, unfeted, around provincial theatres.2009 November 30, Moira Petty, Mail Online. From the entry unfeted
  • "An otherwise challenging and fun endurance endeavor can dissolve into a slog fest or worse, a never-ending nightmare."2007, Suzanne Girard Eberle, Endurance Sports Nutrition, 2nd edition, Human Kinetics Publishers, pages 233–34. From the entry slogfest
  • His building and unbuilding, both, are a slog.2007 July 2, Richard Eder, “When People, Culture and Even Time Are Suspect”, in New York Times. From the entry unbuild
  • Understanding its significance requires reading four of the techiest paragraphs you'll read all day, but it's worth the slog.2005 August 12, David Pogue, “A Camera That Has It All? Well, Almost”, in The New York Times. From the entry techy
  • Yours is a short life but a merry one — full of testimonials testifying, jingles jingling and slogans slogging.1959, General Electric Company advert in New Scientist, page 509. From the entry minutesworth
  • Comity and conciliation are a slog.2026 February 16, Frank Bruni, “Pam Bondi and the MAGA Brand of Insult Politics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry comity
  • The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories.2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry slog away
  • Urban has spent close to a decade slogging around in the ponds of Connecticut’s broadleaf forests examining the intricacies of salamander populations.2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018. From the entry broadleaf
  • Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers. From the entry knout
  • At lunch time, after a morning of heavy slogging, the train reaches Uplands, and suddenly, the Rift Valley is spread at your feet.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265. From the entry rift valley
  • Believe me, I feel the pain of those self same veterans who must compell themselves to slog through yet another long thread on Esperanto or protoGreek or whatever.1999 February 4, Padraic Brown, “Criticisms of Esperanto in sci.lang”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2022. From the entry sci.langer
  • Erecting-shop work was always hard and slogging, so that at the end of a 9¾ hour day there were not many who felt inclined for much more physical activity.1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285. From the entry slogging
  • Puzzle Adventure is sort of a lame PC game (it's basically playing Reversi over and over), but it's worth slogging through for the virtual items and site theme it gives.2014 December 12, u/aymekae, “A guide to Neopets gifting for strangers and Reddit Secret Santas”, in r/neopets (Reddit post), archived…. From the entry Neopetter

Meaning of slog

  1. noun A long, tedious walk or march.
  2. noun A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
  3. noun A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.

Full definition of slog

Questions about slog in a sentence

How do you use slog in a sentence?
Slog is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.”
What is a short sentence with slog?
“Comity and conciliation are a slog.”
What does slog mean?
Slog means a long, tedious walk or march.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slog (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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