Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Moving with extreme slowness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Snail-like in pace or gait; creeping or moving slowly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slow-moving, like a snail.
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Examples
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Sometimes there are notices warning of inanimate dangers such as the invariably poorly-designed curves, sharp-edged shoulders that drop off into nothingness or shoulders that don't exist at all, perilous intersections, and traffic lanes that turn from two into one or from one into none, snail-paced farm implements and, inevitably, roads under repair.
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Sometimes there are notices warning of inanimate dangers such as the invariably poorly-designed curves, sharp-edged shoulders that drop off into nothingness or shoulders that don't exist at all, perilous intersections, and traffic lanes that turn from two into one or from one into none, snail-paced farm implements and, inevitably, roads under repair.
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Sometimes there are notices warning of inanimate dangers such as the invariably poorly-designed curves, sharp-edged shoulders that drop off into nothingness or shoulders that don't exist at all, perilous intersections, and traffic lanes that turn from two into one or from one into none, snail-paced farm implements and, inevitably, roads under repair.
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Much of the time, lack of local capacity and snail-paced international support mire us in the world of "might have been".
Nicholas van Praag: Was Keynes right about fragile states? Nicholas van Praag 2010
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She had spent most of those past two hours in traffic moving at maddening snail-paced speed, inching toward the city and through it.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ann Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director, should visit Yemen and let them know that the world is watching their snail-paced response to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ann Veneman, UNICEF Executive Director, should visit Yemen and let them know that the world is watching their snail-paced response to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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Much of the time, lack of local capacity and snail-paced international support mire us in the world of "might have been".
Nicholas van Praag: Was Keynes right about fragile states? Nicholas van Praag 2010
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She had spent most of those past two hours in traffic moving at maddening snail-paced speed, inching toward the city and through it.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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Block out the mental images of snail-paced Major League Soccer games that you may have seen.
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