(1) Rebuilding the party and restoring its integrity was a hard slog.
(2) If the prime minister does not invite a contest, then the right thing is for the key cabinet names mentioned above to throttle any further coup attempts, to rally round him, shut up about his many weaknesses, and slog on, in the best spirit possible.
(3) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
(4) "In pure movie terms, however, it's also a bit of a slog, with an inordinate amount of exposition and lack of strong forward movement.
(5) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
(6) 4.55am BST Spurs 95-95 Heat - 5:00 remaining OT Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @HunterFelt Hang on...I just had a scrappy midfield slog to write about.
(7) Athletes, many of them not well remunerated by the standards of modern sport, would deliver the career defining moment they had slogged through months of monotonous training for in a moment of heart stopping adrenaline, broadcast to the world in patented hyper-real style.
(8) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
(9) Instead of mounting grand offensives designed to seize more territory from insurgent control, the British mission was focused on the long, slow slog of counterinsurgency – holding on to areas they already had.
(10) In another era, an injury of that nature might have wrecked a footballer’s career and, for Shaw, it has certainly been a long slog to reach this point where he is back in United’s team, playing with distinction once again and possibly about to resume his England career.
(11) The women I met last week had been slogging away all summer.
(12) But for me, any excitement generated by this announcement is tempered by the simple fact that it’s still only 26%, and it was a slog to get here.
(13) He started in business with a £5,000 bank loan in the 1960s, "slogged" through three recessions, and increased the size of his company Caparo from revenues of £14,000 to £625m today.
(14) "In the past it was such a slog fighting against something that people didn't even know existed.
(15) Normality has not yet returned even though we are in the recovery phase, which is going to be a long slog.
(16) Bringing the brand back from the brink was a hard, expensive slog involving buying back 23 licences Burberry had sold to allow other firms to put its check on everything, including disposable nappies for dogs.
(17) And the length also makes this feel like a bit of a slog.
(18) Anything less will be a failure to deliver on the instructions of the British people.” Hammond, who campaigned for remain in the referendum and has been arguing in cabinet against the idea of Britain leaving the EU without a deal, said the result of the general election had shown that the country was “weary after seven years of hard slog repairing the damage of the great recession” .
(19) A side that built its success on teamwork, structure and a rare spirit of togetherness might have to reinvent themselves unless their title defence is to descend into a long old slog.
(20) I was ferociously ambitious and I kept my head down and slogged my guts out.
Snog
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
(2) In the media, Stem graduates are portrayed as geeky, unimaginative people who find it hard to get a snog.
(3) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(4) The most insidiously evil programme on the schedule – Snog, Marry, Avoid – claims to encourage young women to realise that they don't need implants and hair extensions "for confidence", but actually tells them to lose their individualism, dresses them as Duchess of Cambridge clones and claims the transformation has been successful if it means that more men are attracted to them post-makeover.
(5) It was weird for me, too – seeing them at the altar rail, knowing that we'd been snogging the night before.
(6) Although BBC3 shows such as Snog Marry Avoid have proved controversial, BBC3 has acted as a seed bed for new talent and ideas.
(7) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
(8) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(9) The ever vigilant Gawker users have remarked on the increase in stories like this one about Greece as well as the more traditional video clips of Miley Cyrus apparently snogging a woman It was endless videos of people throwing buckets of ice over their heads, a phenomenon which drove enormous amounts of traffic to Gawker last year, that finally prompted the change of heart.
(10) He then blew up a drug lord's laboratory, peeled off his wetsuit to reveal an immaculate white DJ, snogged an exotic dancer, clocked in her eyeballs the reflection of a bad guy sneaking up behind them, tipped said bad guy into the bathtub, threw an electric heater in after him, and quipped: "Shocking, positively shocking!"
(11) And, indeed, there aren't a lot here: meet, barbie, banter, snog.
(12) There aren't many people who can say they've been snogged by a hummingbird!
(13) At the time, she had a crush on a youth team player – "I fancied the pants off him; I think I might have snogged him once" – so she confided in her mother that she thought it might be him.
(14) Two can play the name dropping game - a friend of Small Talk's once snogged the lead singer of My Life Story.
(15) There is plenty of romance and the odd bit of snogging throughout the basement bar and upstairs cafe, but you are as likely to see lone customers with their laptops, relaxing after a workout at the gym, and couples dropping in after a day's shopping.
(16) The best drama prize was won by BBC Radio 3's People Snogging in Public Places.
(17) Beth Jordache (Anna Friel), Brookside (C4) 1993 Bordering on psycho-dyke territory as Beth, witness to and victim of familial sexual abuse, turned to bezzie mate Margaret for a Christmas Eve snog, as you do.
(18) "I got snogged by Kiefer Sutherland, which was a personal triumph and highlight.
(19) But it has also proved controversial, with shows such as Hotter than my Daughter, My Man Boobs and Me, Snog, Marry, Avoid?
(20) Alec Shelbrooke (Con, Elmet and Rothwell) came in at four for me, though this is obviously only a parlour game as theoretical as Snog, Marry, Avoid (and just be glad you aren't even required to contemplate two of those options).