(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.
Trudge
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
(2) 7:23pm: Out trudge the players, looking tense - perhaps because of the stakes of the match, or maybe because of all the formalities Fifa make them endure before kick-off.
(3) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
(4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
(5) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
(6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(7) The rest of us may be baffled that the slowest trudge out of recession in history has been followed by the fastest growth of any advanced economy.
(8) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
(9) Two days later, with the snow falling hard, I trudge across town to Nymphomaniac's base camp.
(10) There was a something of an installation art mystery tonight after the sudden closure of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall , where visitors have been enjoyably trudging through and relaxing on the artist Ai Weiwei's vast grey field of 100m sunflower seeds.
(11) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(12) Visitors to their new European home will soon be able to observe the pair in captivity, while rangers in their homeland are trudging through forests, collecting DNA samples and logging droppings and paw prints.
(13) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
(14) Delegates trudge past youth protesters doing street theatre or interpretive dance with barely a glance.
(15) At first, they simply trudged across the rolling landscapes, randomly attacking the sheep, cows and ducks that graze each Minecraft world.
(16) Lessons learned ... Feminism is dead Over the 476 minutes of vampires, wolves and long, lingering looks, Bella's life (much like life after 30) is a depressing trudge towards marriage and babies.
(17) I trudged for hours on footpaths without seeing anyone.
(18) Ordinary citizens trudge in from work, there's a warm murmur of chat, they sing the first few notes of A Little Respect, and we step from the grey of the outside streets into a sunnier, brighter world.
(19) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
(20) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.