slogged; slogging
1
: to hit hard : beat
2
: to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty
slogger
noun
1
a
: hard persistent work
the endless enervating slog of war—
Michael Gorra
Michael Gorra
b
: a prolonged arduous task or effort
reform will be a hard political slog—M. S. Forbes
M. S. Forbes2
: a hard dogged march or journey
Examples of slog in a Sentence
Verb
He slogged away at the paperwork all day.
She slogged through her work.
She slogged her way through her work.
We've been slogging along for hours.
He slogged through the deep snow.
They slogged their way through the snow.
Noun
It will be a long, hard slog before everything is back to normal.
It was a long slog up the mountain.
Recent Examples on the Web
Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025
The serial killer known as the Night Stalker, a professed Satanist, had been sentenced to death a year before, and the McMartin Preschool molestation case, with its wild claims of ritual abuse of children, was still slogging through the courts.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Outside Online, 28 May 2025
Congress is already deep into the slog of drafting Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered funds for the administration’s mass deportation effort — a package that, unlike the budget plan, would carry the force of law.
—Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
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Verb
The year before Queen arrived on campus, Maryland slogged through a 16-17 campaign.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025
The serial killer known as the Night Stalker, a professed Satanist, had been sentenced to death a year before, and the McMartin Preschool molestation case, with its wild claims of ritual abuse of children, was still slogging through the courts.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
Did your mind wander during time at camp, during slogs uphill, or were these things put inside of a box placed deep within the basement of your being and just shoved down at any time?
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
Congress is already deep into the slog of drafting Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered funds for the administration’s mass deportation effort — a package that, unlike the budget plan, would carry the force of law.
—Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
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“Slog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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