slowly

IPA: sɫˈoʊɫi

adverb

(manner) At a slow pace.

Examples of "slowly" in Sentences

He collected riches slowly.
The egg is slowly putrescent.
The outside is darkling slowly.
The food began to decay slowly.
The muscle is stiffening slowly.
The population is declining slowly.
He unwrap the box slowly and carefully.
Slowly they return to their quotidian activities.
Slowly increase speed to a lope, and trot around the barrels.
Read this book slowly and carefully, as one would savour a jackfruit.
Snoop Dogg left Mr. Knight's Death Row Records a year after that, and the label slowly declined.
But he turned slowly away, and opening his money-drawer, _very slowly_ toyed with his fingers amid its contents.
But, he turned slowly away, and opening his money-drawer, _very slowly_, toyed with his fingers amid its contents.
Examples of such features include indirect or reported speech (˜Galileo said that the earth moves™), adverbial expressions (˜Flora swam slowly ˜where ˜slowly™ modifies ˜Flora swam™) and non-indicative sentences such as imperatives (˜Eat your eggplant!™).
Of course, the reports tend to come in slowly from the more devastated areas, but the press coverage indicated that the military and civil authorities were working very hard before the hurricane to get people out of low lying areas and out of houses made of wood and tin.
Then, of course, an attendant came running (_although he seemed to be moving ever so slowly, because everything moves so slowly in a dream_) and Harry saw him coming and lifted a bell-glass and smashed it down over the man's head (_slowly, ever so slowly_) and then he heard the others coming and he climbed out of the window and ran.

slowly

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