Modifying Another Word

• very: My family tree shows that it took us 200 years to move from Aldgate East to Hackney we were very slow-moving.

• relatively: Handling: Members of this species are relatively slow-moving and tend to be quite amenable to handling.

• rather: One, which may have followed a rather slow-moving Seacat in, was seen briefly around Heysham outfalls ( 28/6 ).

• often: Often slow-moving scenes also shifted unconvincingly between stylized comedy to seriousness, for the sake of clunky plot development.

Modifies a noun

• queue: A hundred yards or so away, there's a slow-moving queue to enter the Tower grounds.

• river: Lakes and ponds, slow-moving rivers and streams, canals and deep ditches.

• traffic: Whether iron or steel, poorly installed covers are known to break away from bedding even under light, slow-moving traffic.

• stream: Don't enter rivers which are deeper than 1.2 m - wading can be difficult even in slow-moving streams.

• front: A slow-moving cold front was sliding up the Irish Sea giving rain from Wick to Plymouth.

• vehicle: The slow-moving police vehicle disappeared into the trees only to emerge a hundred yards further along the shore.

Used with adjective complement

• become: A vigorous low, developing over southwest England, tracked slowly northwards on the 19th to become slow-moving to the west of Scotland.