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How to use the word sluggish in a Sentence? Page #2

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They had a big second quarter, things kind of changed at that point. After the half, we came back a little sluggish and then couldn't get it back until the fourth quarter, which was a little too late.

Jae Crowder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sales have been sluggish so far this year as most consumers are still buying close to need, what's worse is the marked deceleration from a year ago.

Craig Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The adjustment to expected price developments largely reflects the renewed downturn in crude oil prices, which had not been expected in June, downside risks to economic growth would arise if the current sluggish dynamics in a number of emerging market economies were to worsen.

The Bundesbank

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This means it can help fortify your overall health and be better on your stomach so you won’t feel sluggish during sex, she says. RELATED: Shirtless Nick Jonas Explains How He Got His New Buff Body 5. There's even a beer specifically engineered to enhance performance. 50 Shades of Green is basically like green juice and Viagra combined. It uses ginseng, ginkgo biloba and damiana to achieve increased sexual desire, blood flow and nerve stimulation.

Kat Van Kirk

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The stock market was slightly buoyed by the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates, yet the rebound was sluggish on investors' concerns about the country's sagging economy and lack of positive sectoral news.

Zheng Weigang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since the economic recovery has been sluggish and episodic, retailers can come to this season with strategies to not go promotional, but it only takes one or two to begin going promotional (to disrupt their strategies).

Steven Barr

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

July's rise in industrial production merely offset the declines in the previous two months, so is not the beginning of a stronger upward trend in the sector, the survey evidence points to fairly sluggish growth over the rest of the year.

Jack Allen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The survey evidence points to fairly sluggish growth over the rest of the year.

Jack Allen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The pace of slowdown in fixed-asset investment is relatively fast - dragged by the property sector, while the factory sector remains sluggish, overall, the economy is very weak and the central bank may have to continue cutting interest rates and banks' reserve requirement.

Zhou Hao

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Factory output lacks strength in July-September due to sluggish exports of cars and electric machinery, if consumer spending fails to pick up, the government may compile a supplementary budget.

Junichi Makino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Markit survey confirms that U.S. manufacturing is likely to see only a sluggish pace of growth in the third quarter.

Jesse Hurwitz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Water warms you up another way as well. It helps power your metabolism, and a sluggish metabolism translates into less overall body heat. Aim for the requisite eight glasses a day at a minimum, recommended Maggie Moon, but always drink more before and after workouts. RELATED : 12 Reasons Dehydration Is Bad for Your Body You don't consume enough vitamin B12 This nutrient found only in animal products plays big role in preventing big chills. The body needs vitamin B12 to make red blood cells, which carry oxygen through your system.

Maggie Moon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Holly Phillips said. It's not clear why this happens ; studies suggest that in response to the stress of not getting quality snooze time, there's a reduction in activity in the hypothalamus, the control panel of the brain where body temperature is regulated. A study from the European Journal of Applied Physiology appears to back this up : researchers documented a drop in body temperature in 20 sleep-deprived young adults. Metabolism may be a culprit here as well. When you're fatigued from a restless night, your metabolism works at a more sluggish pace, Holly Phillips said, producing less heat and slower circulation. You're dehydrated Up to 60 percent of the adult human body is water, and water helps regulate body temperature.

Maggie Moon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The weak data continues to point out the sluggish demand in the real economy. The government should roll out more easing measures to lower the real financing costs to boost growth.

Yu Yafang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Perhaps these years have been good, but only for a narrow group, yes, it's time for change, time to end this sluggish, indolent presidency.

European MP Duda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Orders were weak across the board, remaining consistent with a sluggish rebound in growth following the early-year slowing in economic momentum.

Gennadiy Goldberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He is often impatient with our sluggish government bureaucracy, can at times be very hands-on in resolving issues and problems that are brought to his personal attention, and is always mindful that we are public servants, ali works hard to do the right thing, and never acts, in my observation, for reasons of personal advancement or aggrandizement.

Jeh Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Domestic economic activity is likely to remain sluggish and external demand looks uncertain, we believe more policy easing is still warranted at the current stage to support growth.

Qu Hongbin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is about too-long court proceedings, sluggish investment approvals, poor transport infrastructure, corruption or an overextended influence of trade unions.

Joerg Kraemer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Most instances of bedwetting, whether they run in the family or not, have to do with heavy sleep and a sluggish coordination between bladder signals that say ‘take me to the bathroom’ and a deep level of sleep that prevents the signals from reaching awareness.

Max Maizels

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're really planning the company for a sluggish oil and gas sector in '15.

Chief Executive Jeff Immelt

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're still positioned across our portfolios based on a world where we think growth is going to continue to be quite sluggish, i think the theme reflected in the U.S.-focused portfolios is this idea of U.S. decoupling – divergence in terms of growth patterns - from other countries.

Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Walter Scott

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Edmund Burke

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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