How to Use slow-walk in a Sentence

slow-walk

verb

• The pair then were seen slow-walking to the stage as Em asked what the plan was.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024
• Putin has been accused by some in the West of slow-walking Trump.
  — Ian Swanson, The Hill, 19 May 2025
• But the Dodgers are resisting the urge and slow-walking his progress.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 15 May 2025
• Did the Supreme court slow-walk the Trump immunity case?
  — Bart Jansen, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2024
• Hence, Xi’s strategy of slow-walking the process, one that’s worked so far.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
• Cannon has slow-walked the Trump prosecution since the case landed in her lap more than a year ago.
  — Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• The slow-walking tactic points to difficult days ahead.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
• Valley slow-walks the evolution of the city and surrounding fields forward.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 27 July 2023
• Anything else is just slow-walking the inevitable. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.
  — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
• To be sure, Abe managed to slow-walk talks and get Trump to agree to keep the Tokyo-Washington trade dynamics largely unchanged.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
• The nine justices have already boosted the former president by slow-walking the case.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
• However, the two parties ran into trouble; Slam accused Lynk of slow-walking the merger in an attempt to force the deal to fail.
  — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 25 July 2025
• Ironheart, though, has yet to be renewed, and the way that the series — which wrapped filming back in late 2022 — was slow-walked onto our screens has many leery of Marvel’s future plans for Riri & Co.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 3 July 2025
• The man who has slow-walked and botched the Hunter Biden investigation has now been named the special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 Aug. 2023
• But Dmitriev's visit follows signs of impatience on the part of Trump that Putin is slow-walking negotiations over Ukraine.
  — Natalia Drozdiak and Stephanie Lai Bloomberg News, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2025
• Barbra, seeing a farmhouse nearby, runs there for help—only to discover the dead body of the home’s owner—and many slow-walking creatures coming her way.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• In the Senate, unanimity will be required to move the legislation along quickly, since one senator has the power to slow-walk the path to passage.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Critics say the court has slow-walked the case to the point where a trial before the November election is now unlikely, no matter how the justices rule on Trump’s immunity claim.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• Google has had generative AI technology for years, but out of caution was slow-walking it.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• Former government health officials feared that the FDA, under Kennedy, was moving to slow-walk vaccine approvals.
  — NBC news, 20 May 2025
• One reason Trump’s critics complain the Supreme Court slow-walked its decision is because the justices have ruled quickly in other high-profile cases.
  — Bart Jansen, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2024
• Democrats have chided the GOP for slow-walking accountability for Santos.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Small protests have broken out in opposition to a Parliament proposal to expand the draft to include younger men, though so far, Parliament has slow-walked the measure.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• The commission has suggested adding more process — requiring more time and more review — that slow-walks any City Council action on public safety with red tape.
  — Donna Lieberman, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• Moreover, says Bodner and a dozen sources in law enforcement who talked to me for this story, Snapchat seemed to slow-walk police investigations after fake pills killed young buyers.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• Local governments can attract a billion dollars in foreign investments and then slow-walk approvals for those very projects.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
• But the settlement was imperiled within weeks, the whistleblowers alleged, because the agency intended to slow-walk the funding.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Weiss was accused of slow-walking an investigation into Hunter Biden but ultimately brought tax and gun charges against him.
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
• But over the last 100 days, as lawsuits flooded in across the country challenging his policies, signs emerged that Trump and his allies were slow-walking, if not directly ignoring, court orders.
  — Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
• Orban has signaled support for the two nations’ NATO applications, but his government has slow-walked the issue.
  — Steven Erlanger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023