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slog - use in sentences
Object
- sweep: But when Warne strays onto leg stump, Flintoff can resist no longer and slog sweeps him over mid wicket for six!
Converse of object
- become: Add in your own HIV health needs, and life suddenly becomes a relentless slog through the health and social care system.
Adjective modifier
- hard: Most of the work here is just a hard slog.
- real: I was saved when I was a medical student - I wasn't very bright, so medicine was a real slog!
- long: It is a long hard relentless slog in which we are all involved.
Modifying Another Word
- uphill: The Murray snowfield proved to be a long imperceptibly uphill slog in slightly soft snow, but no crevasse problems.
- hard: The battle settled down into a long, hard slog gaining small amounts of ground in periodic smaller scale attacks.
- long: The long slog up a scree slope to our final camp.
- back: We had a half hour slog back up the hill to the car.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: A fair slog up to Sutton Bridge now ensued.
- out: An uneventful return journey, shame about the slog out of the gorge!
Followed by a transitive particle
- up: The long slog up a scree slope to our final camp.
Particle object: up_obj
- hill: The weather was on our side with warm sunshine - just what you need for a steady slog up hill for 2.5 Hours!
Infinitive complement
- get: Agree pretty much about the rest... The Lost Album is, to me, a slog to get through.
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