"slow" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

slow adjetivo

slow + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 339
slow motion • slow pace • slow start • slow movement • slow death • slow process • slow growth • slow progress • slow speed • ...
verbo + slow
Kolokacji: 16
go slow • start slow • move slow • prove slow • run slow • ...
adverbio + slow
Kolokacji: 52
relatively slow • painfully slow • extremely slow • agonizingly slow • notoriously slow • ...
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(3) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
1. maddeningly slow = nieznośnie wolny maddeningly slow
2. infuriatingly slow = w irytujący sposób wolny infuriatingly slow
3. embarrassingly slow = w sposób żenujący wolny embarrassingly slow
  • The film makes clear that the mainstream media were embarrassingly slow to recognize the religious right's political clout.
  • When I started, less than six months ago, my time in the 500-meter was 54.99, which is embarrassingly slow.
  • Yet the attention and appeal can only help a sport in which change comes embarrassingly slow.
  • I stared at him for a moment, embarrassingly slow on the uptake, then chuckled.
  • And fast computers come with ironclad guarantees that they will seem embarrassingly slow within months.
  • Prior offerings in that form factor were all embarrassingly slow.
  • When the unexpectedly stubborn Turkish resistance led to an embarrassingly slow advance of the Italian forces, reinforcements were sent to Libya.
  • The Model 50 has a 20-megabyte internal drive that is embarrassingly slow, almost as slow as a floppy disk.
  • Even his afternoon office hours, at times embarrassingly slow, were made pleasantly hectic today by frequent phone calls from the hospital nurses to clarify orders or discuss problems.
  • But in dealing with once-superior athletes who have no concept of how good they are versus how good they once were, change can come embarrassingly slow.
(9) deliberately, surprisingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) necessarily, unnecessarily
Kolokacji: 2
(11) tediously, ponderously
Kolokacji: 2
slow + preposición
Kolokacji: 13
slow in • slow for • slow to • slow on • slow with • ...

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