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Example sentences for "slogging"

Lexicographically close words:
slobbering; sloe; sloes; slogan; slogans; sloka; slokas; sloo; sloop; sloops
  1. He had been slogging to get through the belt of hard, white stone near the new colours before Michael appeared.

  2. His glance travelled to Potch, who was slogging at the cement stone again.

  3. The slogging of the British had increased in energy.

  4. It's the power that keeps a man slogging, slogging in one groove without getting mechanical or stupid, as long as he attain his ends or can serve his country by keeping on.

  5. And through all the steady slogging of Royal Garrison Artillery howitzers, and the tireless, dogged hammering of Field Artillery eighteen-pounders.

  6. Taube, flying like a bird with a wounded wing, crossed the lines of the British trenches, dived staggeringly, and crashed down in the ploughed field behind the slogging guns.

  7. Our gun-fire had never stopped for weeks in its steady slogging hammering, but shortly after half-past three this ordinary noise of artillery quickened and intensified to a monstrous and overwhelming tumult.

  8. It began to rain gustily, and then settled down to a steady, slogging downpour.

  9. They and their men were surprised but not disconcerted, and stood desperately to a slogging match at the closest quarters.

  10. The slogging valour of the private, the careless dash of the regimental officer--these were our military assets--but seldom the care and foresight of our commanders.

  11. The exact position at the end of this fortnight of hard slogging was that a quarter of the colony of Natal and a hundred miles of railway were in the hands of the enemy.

  12. Some more hard slogging was in front of the relievers of Kimberley.

  13. Moreover, he soon discovered that the haughty Baron was taking all sorts of liberties with him; was slogging him round the lists; in short, was playing polo with him.

  14. Both were long and straight, and, though Elsie drove as sturdily as ever, Pip's determined slogging brought him to the green before her each time, and at the seventh hole he stood one up.

  15. The tops are pretty hard ice-snow, over which the sledges run easily; it is quite a holiday after slogging up the slopes on the softer surface with our heavy loads, which amount to over 190 lbs.

  16. By hard slogging 2¾ miles this morning--then on in thick gloom which suddenly lifted and we found ourselves under a huge great mountain of pressure ridge looking black in shadow.

  17. He wanted to think out things, and he liked foot-slogging on a big scale as a stimulus to thought.

  18. Yet, for all that, his slogging was not like the slogging of to-day.

  19. In the van of the battle we heard the stones rattle, Some slogging was done, but no slaughter, A shout from the stand, and the whole of our band Skimm'd merrily over the water.

  20. When our blood ran rapidly, and when Our bones were pliant and limber, Could we stand a merry cross-counter then, A slogging fall over timber?

  21. It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian.

  22. Once this slogging labor was under way Jason turned his attention to the crude mechanism that they were powering.

  23. By leaping into the air, howling with anger and beating his club against his thick leather armor he managed to work himself into quite a state before starting off on a slogging run.

  24. Supplies delivered from the sky made the patrol possible but did little to ameliorate the discomfort of the Marines slogging through the mud.

  25. These labour chaps have been slogging in like greased lightning.

  26. No more foot-slogging infantry for me if there's a chance of riding in an armoured moving fort.

  27. There were people who preferred foot-slogging to ski at any time, and there were certainly days when teams on foot would literally dance round men pulling on ski.

  28. After a mug of warming tea and two biscuits we strike camp, and are soon slogging on.

  29. How weary their marches must have been--ten miles of foot slogging each day.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slogging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.