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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