How to Use slow going in a Sentence

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• Progress toward that goal has been slow going.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 26 Nov. 2025
• It's been slow going — or no going — to Japan for quite some time.
  — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the process has been slow going, and only 71 have been issued so far.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• The work has been slow going, and progress has been incremental.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• On Sunday, the road leading to the reserve was slow going for miles.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Uber has made a huge commitment to going electric, and it's been slow going.
  — Hope King, Axios, 31 July 2024
• While free agency was slow going, Bader is pleased with the result.
  — Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
• The sale is the biggest one so far out of Cannes, where dealmaking has been slow going.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 May 2022
• But Teter and others acknowledged the work has been slow going.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
• At first business was slow going — and confusing.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• Development along the East Bank has been slow going so far.
  — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
• But building an alliance with a therapist—or failing to do so—is often slow going.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2022
• Roads are deep in snow and passage for the hundreds of trucks transporting the food is slow going and can be treacherous.
  — Fox News, 28 Jan. 2022
• In many places, Russian soldiers are dug in, and the counteroffensive has so far been slow going.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2023
• Still, as Rafeld said, without contracts in place, movement can be slow going and difficult.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 21 Aug. 2025
• Distribution deals have been slow going, but hopefully someone will snatch up the indies on this list that don’t yet have a home.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
• But actually getting this lifeline to growers has been slow going.
  — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• So far it’s been slow going, though, with companies struggling even with the most basic tasks, like food deliveries.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
• Some residents who have asked Caltrans to clear encampments have also found the process to be, at best, slow going.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
• By many accounts, healing has been slow going, and beneath the surface in Rocky Mount, emotions are still raw.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Still, using legacy analytics systems to track a new wave of commerce can be both difficult and slow going.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 18 Nov. 2025
• Haney and other supervisors keep pressing for the city to move more homeless people into hotels rooms, but that’s been slow going.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
• Since the mall officially emptied out nearly two years ago, progress has been slow going and the property's owners have been tight-lipped about its future.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
• Filling its office space, though, has been relatively slow going, at least compared with the brisk pace of big office deals before the pandemic.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• Shortfalls could be made up for by raising the price of energy at peak times or by having consumers pay for capacity, but so far these efforts have been slow going.
  — Michael R. Davidson, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2023
• But adoption of the technology, for both patients and healthcare professionals, has been slow going.
  — Simmone Shah, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• The meetings were initially slow going, but the team ended up zeroing in on a few key ideas, including the notion of consequences.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Nov. 2025
• Even when builders wanted to take advantage of the rising prices, many have found the process to be slow going because of various legal and zoning restrictions.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 22 Nov. 2021
• While vote-counting in other states was slow going and the results in several key races were still in doubt, Florida’s elections had seemingly gone off without a hitch.
  — Ryan Mills, National Review, 1 Dec. 2022
• These negotiations are slow going, but the Poles will be pushovers compared to the United States Senate.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 May 2022