What is "slogging"

Usage examples of "slogging".

The ground shifted under him, and suddenly he slipped down a pebbly slope and found himself slogging through calf-deep drifts of sand.

Then it would be a matter of slogging through the Washington-area trucking centers, looking for that propane truck.

For there, down the long white road, was the head of the approaching column -- kilts and sporans swinging to the time, white gaiters slogging up and down, tartan ribbons aflutter on the pipes, and the bass-drummer with his leopard-skin apron whirling his sticks cross-armed, overhead, and behind him in the wild inimitable Highland manner!

Slogging along over rocky hills and sparse bunchgrass, she managed to dodge yellow flowering sagebrush and still search the cloud formations overhead for kittens and ghosts.

Goddess Keephunched over books in the library, slogging through muddy spring fields, scribbling frantically in classrooms, laughing as he and she and Cami and Ostvel raided the kitchens for taze and cakes late at night.

I felt as if I'd been away from my body for a long time, slogging through the steaming, lightless swamps of the Nine Beyonds.

Half the passengers spilled their cocktails with Raoul and Pierre rolling and slogging on the floor near their feet and we had to give everyone free refills.

For one thing, he'd been on flat ground in the Midwest, not slogging his way up through a gap in the Continental Divide.

A shot of my platoon on a night patrol, slogging through a blackness so deep that each man must hold onto the handle of the entrenching tool on the back of the man in front of him.

And then he was laughing and half crying, remembering the very beginning of their relationship, thirty-three years ago, when a weird twelve-year-old kid had come slogging down into a dusty granite quarry in Barre, Vermont, and asked him to put down his jackhammer for a few minutes and take a little test that could be really important.

Him, this, the dirt caked under his nails, the slogging away renovating this cottage for a German.

One minute a traveler will be slogging through sand up to their knees, and the next they will be trying to scale a near-vertical cliff face.

Slogging up and down the riverbank in trousers wet to the knees, his Bible in one hand and another stickful of fire-blackened fish in the other, he waved his bounty in a threatening manner.

There's a lot of slogging, dead ends, and more red herrings than you would ever want to cope with in your lifeand this case is loaded to the gills with those stinking fish.

Those transcripted telephone taps Imelda was slogging through no doubt proved that Bill Morrison had a dick instead of a brain.