Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very slow movement. Compare snail's gallop, snail's pace, under snail.
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Examples
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Now, everyone knows Brad Anderson likes his bleakness- THE MACHINIST is as close an argument for suicide as possible- so perhaps the relentless snail-pace for the opening 45 minutes is intentional.
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The patience of the Ugandan government seems to have run out over the snail-pace of talks which it has accused the LRA of deliberately delaying.
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At this snail-pace I'm going at, it'll probably take me another 10,000 light years to get everything right.
babycartercl Diary Entry babycartercl 2008
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"This snail-pace movement only perpetuates and entrenches the racial and gender disparities that exist in the South African economy," commission chairman Jimmy Manyi wrote in the foreword to the report.
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You might get treated to a special extended snail-pace tour through impossibly congested streets and alleys.
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To us it was wholly incredible how, in that dim remoteness, it could still hold true to the central force and follow at a snail-pace, yet with unvarying exactitude, its stupendous orbit.
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She sighed, knowing that this snail-pace approach demanded a lot of patience and time.
Mystery Dad Karr, Leona 1999
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In that snail-pace country, where any pursuit was sure to be on foot, no one could hope to overtake us, no alarm could outstrip us - I was ready to whoop in my saddle until I thought of that menacing presence still so close, that awful city crouching just behind us, and I shook Elspeth's bridle and sent us forward at a hand-gallop.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Sometimes the snail-pace would be accelerated; our hopes would then expand, only to collapse again with a bang.
In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922
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Unknown to the old dog, these walks had been shortened, mercifully, and slowed down, to accommodate themselves to Lad's waning strength: But the time came when even a half-mile, at snail-pace, over a smooth road, was too much for his wind and endurance.
Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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