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Definitions in simple English

slowly

When something moves slowly or does something slowly, it takes a very long time to do it. She was very tired, and walked slowly up the stairs to bed. He moved slowly, hoping that the bird wouldn't notice him.

slowly

(= slow, easy, tardily) without speed ('slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly') he spoke slowly go easy here--the road is slippery glaciers move tardily please go slow so I can see the sights (= lento) in music Play this lento, please

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Simple sentences

The balloon descended slowly.
You ought to eat more slowly.
Please speak a little more slowly.
Would you mind speaking more slowly?
He entered the room slowly by that door.
She slowly disappeared into the foggy forest.
You speak a bit too fast for me. Could you speak a bit more slowly, please?
I'm a foreigner and I don't know Czech very well. Please, speak slowly.
Make haste slowly.
Eat more slowly.
I walk slowly.
Could you speak a bit more slowly?
The leaves fall slowly.
Speak more slowly, please!
Speak more slowly, please.
A whistle blew, and the boat slowly began to pull out of port.
Walk slowly.
He slowly finished the race.
Work slowly.
Work slowly, and you won't make mistakes.
Drive slowly.
Speak slowly and clearly.
He asked me to speak more slowly.
Walk more slowly.
Could you drive more slowly?
A cellar was dug on top of the hill and they slowly moved the house from the road to the hill.
Rain dripped off the roof slowly.

Movie subtitles

Slowly, slowly.
Explain to me what happened slowly.
Against the horizon, the Earth is rising slowly into space illuminating the picture with a fantastic light.
Seven gigantic stars representing the Great Bear appear slowly, and out of the stars come faces of women who seem annoyed at the presence of these intruders in the moon.
The shell balances and thanks to the hermetically sealed air in its interior rises slowly to the surface.
Slowly, yet inevitably, life was taking its normal course, and there was less and less work at the Evacuation Center.
Spring came slowly.
I couldn't let you see me slowly fading away.
Now then, boys, advance slowly.
When I start cranking why, hold it a minute, and then turn slowly toward me.
When I start to crank, you look up slowly.
Look up slowly, Ann.
Kurgaal where the soul is killed slowly.
Slowly this new vision gained terrain.
Yet, industry and technique were only slowly building again.
The receiver changed frequency very slowly over a one or two hour period.
I slowly built up a nice library.
I couldn't stay here any longer, Kemp. I couldn't let you see me slowly fading away.
Here we go, gently and slowly.
You wouldn't drive slowly, so you don't get a tip.
Cool them off slowly.
He who goes slowly, goes safely.
That you'll be driving slowly.
Some fish move slowly, so you've got a chance.
Slowly and carefully.
I slowly healed. I let my beard grow as it pleased. as I devoured Balzac whom I'd never read.
And drink it slowly.
Shouia. Slowly. By attrition.
Yes, I'll go slowly.
Eat slowly!
Eat slowly.
Why do flowers slowly open their petals?
You should let the future catch up with you more slowly.
Stakes will slowly move through you.
Now, would you mind saying that again really slowly?

News and current affairs

Corals grow slowly, so reefs sustaining severe bleaching will not recover before they bleach again.
That gap is likely to widen as Europe's demographic profile darkens, and if productivity continues to grow more slowly than elsewhere in the industrial economies.
The economy is improving slowly, but it remains in bad shape, with high unemployment and millions having left the labor force.
The increase began slowly, rising from 290 parts per million in 1860 to 295 ppm in 1900.
We are being driven slowly but ineluctably to the realization that the people whom we are fighting will, to a significant extent, inherit the shattered countries that we leave behind.
Moreover, labor repression has caused wages to grow much more slowly than productivity.
Brussels is nowadays a government town akin to Washington, D.C, even if it is also a place where complex negotiations among the Union's 27 members grind forward only slowly.
Democracy is slowly spreading around the world.
China first opened its economic system to the rest of the world, and only now is it thinking (a bit too slowly) about political reform.
Moreover, verbal intervention will be followed by policy action, because slower growth and low inflation - partly triggered by a strong dollar - will induce the Fed to exit zero policy rates later and more slowly than expected.
Senior officials in Jordan have been slowly walking back from the comprehensive political reforms that were promised in the initial euphoria of the Arab Spring.
Western fortunes are rising, slowly but surely.
First, there is the economic and financial crisis that we are only slowly overcoming.
If it is closing, it is doing so very slowly; the damage wrought by the crisis appears to be long term.
And Germany is slowly acquiescing to a prudent relative expansion in domestic demand.
Thus, despite some progress, public and official sensitivity to violence against women is only slowly emerging.
The good news is that a solution is now slowly taking shape that promises to create a mechanism by which the ECB could backstop the EFSF.
The US economy is still ranked near the top in competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, and the political system, in its own messy way, has slowly begun to wrestle with the necessary changes.
Private-sector demand contracts sharply and recovers only slowly after such crises.
Now that the bubble has burst, America's current economic downturn is likely to be far worse than previous ones, because US enterprises will have to be rebuilt, slowly and carefully.
The Communist Party must keep the Chinese economy growing (even if more slowly), while fighting rampant corruption and responding to citizens' demands.
Slowly, many parents began to accept the fact that their children would be worse off.
Partner countries that are less integrated into the global market, such as Moldova, have seen the crisis arrive more slowly, but the real effect might be equally as bad, and they are likely to recover more slowly.
The story of the US is, indeed, one of two economies. There is a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.
Savings could remain high, even as current consumption grows slowly, while the trade balance would be held in check by higher demand for imported capital goods.
After two long, draining wars, its withdrawal from Afghanistan is inching along slowly.
Even now, emerging leaders argue that China is moving too slowly on economic reform and foreign-policy goals.
As a result, however, China is slowly consuming itself, and no major part of China may remain pristine.
After the autumn of 2008, exchange-rate volatility slowly receded toward pre-crisis levels.

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