go slowly

Frequency: 7.518.3 per million words

for time to seem to pass at a slow pace

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Examples (10)

  • On Monday mornings, time seems to go slowly in the office.
  • The last ten minutes before the exam always go slowly.
  • Waiting for the results, the evening would go slowly.
  • When you're bored, the hours go slowly, don't they?
  • During the long flight, time did go slowly at first.
  • Without Wi‑Fi, the day can go slowly on the road.
  • For patients in recovery, the weeks go slowly but steadily.
  • As the rain drizzled, the afternoon seemed to go slowly.
  • In lockdown, even weekends can go slowly sometimes.
  • The days seemed to go by very slowly.