How do you use Slug in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like bullet or hit, plus the exact meaning.
Slug in a sentence
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Slug meaning
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
Synonyms of Slug
Using Slug
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- Useful related words include: bullet, hit, swig, slog.
- In the example corpus, slug often appears in combinations such as: the slug, slug it, slug is.
Context around Slug
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Slug
- In this selection, "slug" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, banana, solid, traditional, crisis, squad and gun stand out and add context to how "slug" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rifled slug or alternatively and a sabot slug improves accuracy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "slug" sits close to words such as anthropologists, archived and awakens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with slug
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Slug rounds are rounds that fire a single solid slug. (10 words)
The reigning top offense in baseball was built to slug, not to run. (13 words)
The street has been closed from Slug & Lettuce on Cheapside to Darlington Street. (13 words)
Superficial and unrealistic violence as cheap entertainment is the worst of all, when fighters slug it out with minimal facial damage or someone is machine gunned with a token splash of blood (or often none at all). (37 words)
The advantages over a traditional slug are increased shot power, increased bullet velocity due to the lighter-mass bullet, and increased accuracy due to the velocity and the reduction in deformation of the slug itself. (35 words)
The slug crisis has been outing up to one set of lights per month, forcing the council to set up 'slug squad' team of engineers to prevent damage and secure other sites. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
The slug crisis has been outing up to one set of lights per month, forcing the council to set up 'slug squad' team of engineers to prevent damage and secure other sites.
Last month, Newsom signed three bills to establish new state symbols including the banana slug as state slug, the black abalone as state seashell and the Dungeness crab as state crustacean.
Called a “slug gun,” it behaves like a rifle from the deer’s perspective, but its chief advantage is the slug won’t travel as far.
Slug rounds are rounds that fire a single solid slug.
The advantages over a traditional slug are increased shot power, increased bullet velocity due to the lighter-mass bullet, and increased accuracy due to the velocity and the reduction in deformation of the slug itself.
The lead slug is replaced by a copper alloy slug in a reverse-drawn jacket, with a hardened steel penetrator extending beyond the jacket, reducing lead contamination to the environment.
Use of a smooth bore shotgun with a rifled slug or, alternatively, a rifled barrel shotgun with a sabot slug, improves accuracy to convert or more.
A quick quiet word then on predators: keep a close eye for caterpillars (check for eggs on the underside of leaves), carrot flies, every slug and snail.
Lee and Bate slug it out until Bate backdrops Lee into a Gacy powerbomb (which he didn’t seem to know was coming).
Sandy has put together some exercise tips for us, specifically for Boxing Day, the most slug-like day of the year.
So if that is true, then it is just a happy accident of evolution that we can get high feeding on what is essentially slug poison.
Superficial and unrealistic violence as cheap entertainment is the worst of all, when fighters slug it out with minimal facial damage or someone is machine gunned with a token splash of blood (or often none at all).
The footage begins with the man crossing Hall Gate from outside the Slug and Lettuce pub and tapping on the window of Mr Faulkner’s van.
The reigning top offense in baseball was built to slug, not to run.
The street has been closed from Slug & Lettuce on Cheapside to Darlington Street.
With Gunther down (not out), Cody and Rollins slug it out but Paul comes back in toss Rollins.
A double clothesline leaves both of them down again before they slug it out.
Among its claims are that inspector body-cam footage was altered and that a slug was planted in the factory by an inspector.
Despite being fans of the Metal Slug series, we were really only interested in this game for the visuals and soundtrack, which do not disappoint.
Evans and Lee slug it out and everything breaks down and the Rascalz hit some dives as we take a break.
Common combinations with slug
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the slug 16×
- slug it 14×
- slug is 8×
- slug and 7×
- to slug 5×
- sea slug 5×
- and slug 5×
- slug of 5×
- of slug 4×
- slug are 3×