How to Use snail's pace in a Sentence

snail's pace

noun
  • At the time, news about prom help traveled at a snail's pace by word of mouth.
    — Brian Blair, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Time passes at snail's pace for a tennis player who cannot play.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But like before, all of a sudden my network returned to a snail's pace.
    — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But if the improvements have slowed to a snail's pace in recent weeks -- and went into reverse last week.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Unfortunately, the traffic was bumper to bumper and crawling at a snail's pace.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • For much of Jordan's career, the NBA game was played at a snail's pace.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The episodic format advances at a snail's pace -- unlike movie biographies that by necessity race to the good stuff.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Previous contract negotiations have moved at a snail's pace, though.
    — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The legal evolution is moving at a snail's pace compared to the creativity and the drive that a lot of women have to make these kinds of events happen.
    — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 11 July 2019
  • Due to budget constraints, the Mars program likely move at a snail's pace, according to available flight manifests.
    — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2016
  • Puerto Rico's bankruptcy case has been moving at a snail's pace compared to typical bankruptcies.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In the end, Atlas was a big, wobbly humanoid that moved at a snail's pace and fell without warning, sometimes without much reason (a slight incline of a few degrees took down one).
    — Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2016
  • Teen drivers either are overly cautious, crawling along at a snail's pace and gum up the traffic or those darned no-good teens of a brazen nature are overly careless and cut off other drivers and run red lights.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Several people who have submitted applications, but haven't gotten a hearing yet, complained to the board of the snail's pace in awarding licenses.
    — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The agency has essentially ground to a snail's pace because new leadership has discouraged new ideas from employees and slowed down existing initiatives.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
  • After starting out at high speeds, the chase continued at a snail's pace for the better part of an hour around the time the driver's back tire went flat, a KTRK video showed.
    — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In exchange, House Republicans have agreed to waive bill readings which have slowed floor action to a snail's pace, keeping state lawmakers in the chamber for hours longer in a pandemic.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Those perils mean the breakneck rescue is being conducted at a snail's pace, all while the miner's face dangers including hypothermia, carbon dioxide poisoning and shortages of food and water.
    — Matt Gutman, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Heavy on narration and too light on the engaging dialogue that animated Mbue's first novel, the plot begins with a big bang and then unfolds, sometimes disjointedly, at a snail's pace, tragedies piling up.
    — Angela Ajayi, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • While the global vaccination program continues at a snail's pace, public health experts are encouraging other mitigation strategies be used slow the spread of the virus and thus reduce the risk of new variants appearing.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The negotiations appear to be moving at a snail's pace, and each round leaves a sense of deja vu, with Barnier lamenting the lack of movement, and Davis appealing for more European flexibility.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2017

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