I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A soaking wet Connors pushed open the flap and slogged inside.
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A truck came down the line picking us up and slogged to a stop in front of his ship.
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And the defense team, slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.
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But then, so do the 49ers as they slog their way through three more utterly meaningless games.
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Occasionally he would step down the wicket and slog my straight medium pacer straight and high over my head.
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Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant, grim-faced and tight-lipped, to slog on alone.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
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The first aspect that presents itself is one of sheer hard slog !
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The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
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It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!
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From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!
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The season had been a hard slog and he felt a break was in the player's interests.
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Then came Edinburgh and the long hard slog of a medical degree and the various hospital training jobs that followed.
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Just hard slog to move up the world rankings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The campaign promises to be a long, hard slog .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was also going to be a boring slog .
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From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!
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It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!
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Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.
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The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.