How to Use slog in a Sentence

slog

1 of 2 verb

• He slogged through the deep snow.
• They slogged their way through the snow.
• She slogged through her work.
• She slogged her way through her work.
• He slogged away at the paperwork all day.
• We've been slogging along for hours.
• As the search slogged through its fourth day, much remained murky.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• An offense that once slogged up and down has quickened the pace.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
• So what's the worst part of slogging your keister around?
  — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
• The same is true for Marines slogging over rough country on foot.
  — David Szondy august 10, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
• Read on to slog through the dumb stuff until that jaw-dropping ending.
  — William Earl, Variety, 11 Jan. 2026
• Since then the case has slogged forward with hearings every month.
  — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• But that doesn’t matter much right now, as these teams slog through an ugly season.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• The belief is that users do not want to slog through a series of back-and-forth entreaties.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Even better than slogging it at the gym or going for a solo walk?
  — Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 15 Dec. 2023
• But what about the rest of us mere mortals just slogging along through a pregnancy?
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 27 July 2023
• His team will still have to slog through the lengthy regulatory process.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
• Crisp pacing condensed what had been a three-hour-plus nightly slog into a tighter two hours.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• Kicking up endless swirls of dust in the south, then slogging through miles of knee-deep mud or snow in the north.
  — Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
• But the actors really did slog it out in the fake torrential rains for two weeks.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2019
• The Avs slogged through the opening period.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
• The skit has persisted in the final weeks of a slogging season.
  — Maria Torres, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Pads are slogging through another bad start to the season.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• For the second straight start, Peralta slogged his way through a ragged first inning.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• Three of the books were fairly good (one was really great), but one was really hard to slog through.
  — The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• North Georgia just has to slog through one more wet day before things turn mainly dry for the weekend.
  — Chelsea Prince, ajc, 8 Oct. 2021
• In the Southwest, Phoenix slogged through its hottest summer since records began.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• The offense was slogging along and then the Browns went to a two-minute drill and worked without a huddle.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Instead of letting your team slog through the mud with no clear end in sight, give them clear objectives to work towards.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• But the rebuilding of Route 495 promises to be a much longer slog.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 June 2018

slog

2 of 2 noun

• It was a long slog up the mountain.
• It will be a long, hard slog before everything is back to normal.
• This is shaping up to be a slog.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
• But that will likely be a long slog.
  — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
• Getting that off the ground has been a slog.
  — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
• It’s been a slog for the Flames through three games.
  — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• But the country faces quite a slog to achieve that.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
• It's made for a slog of a second half so far.
  — Nbc News, NBC news, 28 June 2026
• Each team used seven pitchers to get through the slog.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• And so began the long slog of growing my hair long again.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025
• Is your routine feeling like a slog?
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
• From there, the first half became a slog of shooting droughts.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 7 Jan. 2023
• Dart’s red zone period was a slog.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
• Texas’ recovery may still be a slog, but the game has sped up on us.
  — Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
• Recent events have only added to the sense that the war will be a long slog.
  — Yasmeen Abutaleb and John Hudson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2022
• In other words, men's flip flops aren't made for long distance slogs.
  — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 25 May 2023
• This year, Barkley’s 1,140 yards came more at a slog.
  — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• This one was a slog until the middle of the second half.
  — Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
• Longoria knew that his first game back might be a little bit of a slog.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2022
• Facing two hours of freeway slog with a painful ear can make a rider cry.
  — Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
• For that reason, the album’s middle stretch can be a slog.
  — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
• Smith acknowledges the long slog, and that much remains to be proven.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2022
• For customers, filing a dispute can be a slog.
  — Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• The combine can be a slog -- there’s a lot of waiting around for the players.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2022
• Busy parents need a solid slog-to-swing ratio, and this one has it.
  — Lit Hub Approved, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
• Despite the misfires, her career hasn’t been a slog.
  — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
• But the fighting there has been a back-and-forth, village-by-village slog.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2022
• Remote work is often a slog, and the hybrid office is messy at best.
  — Curbed, 13 July 2022
• For his part, Zaluzhny is girding for a long and bloody slog.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• But this season has been a slog for the Lightning’s top center.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026