What is "slow-moving"

Usage examples of "slow-moving".

The Squid looked past Lo Manto, down the narrow hallway corridor to his right, at the slow-moving shadow of Joey Tugs McGraw gently easing his way into the living room.

Lo Manto dodged and scurried past the slow-moving clusters, closing in on the tiring Pullman, who was out of shape and slowed by a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit.

But as soon as Owen moved forward, the scorched sides just closed together again, like a slow-moving man trap.

A day and a half later, the leader of the Scrow arrived, traveling in a slow-moving caravansary that with considerable care negotiated the path to this low-lying western ridge of Knobblehead Pike.

The short, undistorted echoes from one to five seconds would result from radio waves entering small, stationary or slow-moving clouds.

In the meanwhile there was a glass of sherry to drink while she made a slow-moving conversation with one of the cousins, and then supper, sitting between Uncle Tom and the other cousin--an elaborate meal, with Mrs Parsons explaining in a die-away voice just how long it had taken her to shop for each item they ate, and the unsparing efforts made to offer some of her most cherished recipes to her guests.

It was last June, a hot but unsultry day of clear light with slow-moving clouds, like wisps of muslim, moving across a high, azure sky, the air sweet and cool to the cheek, a day with none of the humid languor I associate with an Oxford summer.

Among recent activities on the part of the RAF and in which Fred had been closely involved had been an early experiment in aerial proscription, successful within limits but revealing the surprising fact that the slow-moving bombers available to the RAF at the time were vulnerable targets to Afridi and Wazir snipers on the ground.

A strong, slow-moving, blocklike species with no appendages, and adapted to a gravity higher than Earth.

Shit, it was safer to bodysurf through an ambush than give the enemy a slow-moving target to plink at.

A few times she jumped off the seat of the slow-moving carreta and walked beside it, to stretch her legs, she told Paco.

Operating in a country which was both vast and difficult, with excellent horses, the best of information and supplies ready for them everywhere, it was impossible for the slow-moving British columns with their guns and their wagons to overtake them.

Like Cowboy, their driver, he was from the Northwest, and he had an easygoing, seemingly slow-moving style, but his men knew he could change to the speed of a rattlesnake about to strike in a single instant.

The SS men and the trusties curse, club, and whip the slow-moving inmates back to the barracks.

But she herself was steady and calm enough, bent on keeping emotion away, and somehow getting him back along the riverpath, abandoned now to the moon and the bright, still spaces of the night and the slow-moving, whitened water.