Overloaded, the machine rose sluggishly.

The men rose sluggishly and went about their work without speaking much one to the other: tired and hungry.

Only one could not fight a cloud rising sluggishly.

He rose sluggishly to his feet forcing his head up and his shoulders back.

The machine rose sluggishly in the hot, thin air.

Perhaps, weeks or months from now, what was left would rise sluggishly to the surface and be discovered, but Shivani thought that unlikely.

As the people in the community moved around her house, "a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray".

The raft groaned, rising sluggishly and plunging hard.

Blue-black smoke poured out of the entrance, rising sluggishly to the sky.

The two heavily loaded Fokkers rose sluggishly and a few moments later they landed at the drome while the mysterious flying cloud circled above.