| 1. | When hast thou been so sluggish before no. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulu. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish ice. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 6. | The ooze to show what coast thy sluggish crar. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | The sluggish cream wound curdling spirals through her tea. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | "There is one thing," I said, to allay the fears I had aroused "they are the most sluggish things I ever saw crawl. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 9. | The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |