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How to use the word SLOWLY in a Sentence?

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Only a skillful and experienced person can transform his inner fear into alertness and attentiveness. Always be clearly prepared for future challenges. Carefully, thinking slowly, learn to be prepared for anything, because no one is responsible for your actions except yourself.

Narsha Bulgakbaev

added by nbulgakbaev
4 months ago

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Benjamin Disraeli

added by Normando
5 months ago

She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
8 months ago

The labor market in March came in like a lion with a banking crisis and more layoffs, and is going out like a lamb with a solid jobs report, the labor market is still strong, but it’s gliding slowly back down to Earth.

Daniel Zhao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is the use of learning all this knowledge if it’s not for people to fight the single greatest threat to their security? for me, the memories of my childhood growing up in my village with my people are slowly fading, as the environment that sustained us disintegrates before our eyes.

Cynthia Houniuhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The snow water equivalent in the snowpack that’s still on the ground is in the top 10 or 20% compared to historic years, so there’s really just quite a lot of snow water out there, with temperatures on the colder side for this winter, it hasn’t had a chance to melt out slowly yet.

Masha Hoy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we are dealing with is something evil, a terrorizing disease that makes us watch our baby suffer, never being able to do anything to truly save him, it is killing us all slowly and it won’t stop killing us until we have a treatment.

Mary Saladino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People think taking a deep breath is the way to ease stress, but it turns out that exhaling slowly is a better way to calm yourself.

David Spiegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think I slowly became kind of shamed, i felt ashamed of the decisions that I made. I didn’t want you guys to see me in the state that I was in, because A, you would have told me the truth — which terrifies me — and B, I didn’t want to let you down.

Selena Gomez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For people who have slowly begun to recover and regain a sense of normalcy and rebuilt their lives over the last decade, this has been terrifying and destabilizing for both children and adults, some are still in denial while others are experiencing hallucinations.

Alexandra Chen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Radiation detectors on moving vehicles can be used to detect radiation above the natural levels, but the relatively low amount of radiation in the source means that they would have to ‘sweep’ the area relatively slowly.

Dale Bailey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re assessing and crunching the numbers on what these recent storms could do for the allocation, at this point, we’re still below average in Oroville, although we’re gaining and it’s great to see that deficit gap slowly close.

Molly White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you have a goal to make two recipes a week for dinner, you’ll start to get more comfortable in the kitchen and cooking will become more of a natural thing for you, slowly work your way up and you’ll be eating at home more than you’re eating out.

Sarah Crawford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is not uncommon for two cancers to be diagnosed in people at the same time. Some cancers grow very, very slowly. And sometimes, people will go to the doctor because they have symptoms for one cancer, and the doctor, being thorough, looks for other things and finds something else.

Otis Brawley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With our children and doing in-person learning, we saw the curriculums and how teachers were responding, slowly it became apparent that our children were learning more about gender identity and critical race theory, than they were about math and reading.

Shukri Abdirahman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think so, because while federal cases tend to take time to make their way through the courts, when it's an election case and when the Justice Department is suing over changes to the election law, they usually want those to move faster because their whole claim is that these rules are affecting the ability of people to vote and it’s moving so slowly. Every month that goes by the chances of them winning their case gets lower and lower and lower because the registration and turnout numbers show that their whole theory is full of holes.

Von Spakovsky

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Over the course of the last year, we have been slowly and steadily raising them to be frogs.

Erin Lundy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Normal breathing is a balance between breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide. When you upset this balance by exhaling more than you inhale,( it) causes a rapid reduction in carbon dioxide in the body, low carbon dioxide levels lead to narrowing of the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. This reduction in blood supply to the brain leads to symptoms like lightheadedness. This is why it is often recommended to start slowly and practice three to four cycles at a time until you are comfortable with the technique.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From the satellite data, we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice ; kind of a bit like a windscreen crack, it's slowly spreading across the ice shelf and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.

Peter Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortality generally, mainly since the 1950s, has changed rather slowly.

Bob Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel like it's suffocating me slowly, why do I have to choose between living and living ?

Angelina Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mobility restrictions and lockdowns were implemented faster and eased more slowly under China's zero-Covid policy.

Belinda Wong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Lorne Michaels

added by Normando
1 year ago

Patience is like making a cup of tea, first you ask if its needed, then you drink it slowly.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
1 year ago

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