SLOWLY in a Sentence

Learn SLOWLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
284 example sentences for SLOWLY, such as:
1. They walked slowly along the road.
2. The hands of a clock turn very slowly.
3. The moon rose slowly above the horizon.
4. Dinah was crying as she drove slowly away.
5. The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SLOWLY
slowly
 ad.  without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She let her lids sink slowly, in the way he loved.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  As his lips rested on it he felt it glide slowly from beneath them, and saw that Mattie had risen and was silently rolling up her work.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  Tears rose in his throat and slowly burned their way to his lids.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  He turned and walked slowly back to the farm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Ethan, looking slowly about the kitchen, said to himself with a shudder that in a few hours he would be returning to it alone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  They mounted slowly to the top of the hill.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Gerald's voice was strangely quiet and he spoke slowly as if drawing his words from a store of thought seldom used.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  "Our people and the Wilkes are different," he went on slowly, fumbling for words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Scarlett blew her nose on her torn handkerchief, and they started up the dark drive arm in arm, the horse following slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Scarlett slowly climbed the steps after him, her feet leaden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  Mammy pinched small Jack, and he hastened to his business of slowly swishing the paper ribbons back and forth behind Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  The moon rose slowly above the horizon.
2  Beat the butter and sugar together and slowly add the eggs.
3  He knows the wheels of administration turn slowly.
4  No matter how many mistakes you make or how slowly you progress, you are already ahead of those who never tried.
5  They walked slowly along the road.
6  A better strategy is to announce the changes quickly and then implement them slowly.
7  The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
8  They drove away slowly to avoid arousing suspicion.
9  Dinah was crying as she drove slowly away.
10  The basic forms of jacket, vest, and breeches developed slowly.
11  He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.
12  If we are children of the time, you can stay there, sit together, listen to those who never old stories side HaoShou slowly.
13  McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
14  Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
15  The hands of a clock turn very slowly.