Sentences with phrase «slogging through»

Anyone here currently slogging through the beta?

Nelson Lakes, New Zealand - Just before lunch, my backpack starts to feel like I've stuffed a circus tent inside it, and my boots and socks are soaked from slogging through calf - deep streams.

Imagine slogging through blinding ice and snowstorms, in winds strong enough to flip you, your musher and his sled upside down.

Slogging through dozens of individual questions to get a ballpark estimate on a home, auto or health policy can give local families a real headache.

Maybe it's more exciting then slogging through 10 - K footnotes, but it's not as profitable.

Where shopping for a sweater involves pawing through a couple of racks of clothing and then heading to the food court, shopping for insurance means slogging through long phone calls and submission forms.

I'd also be pointing and laughing alongside my millennial co-workers at the urban hipsters who are 100k in school debt, and slogging through a 7 figure mortgage.

Sure, amassing the funds and slogging through the necessary paperwork for your own piece of the real estate pie can be daunting, especially if you're a less - than - stellar loan candidate.

If you're slogging through a swamp of credit card debt, here are some debt reduction solutions.

The guys appear to be slogging through the business of lugging stacks of paper and handling typesetting.

Let him walk you through the prewriting process, slogging through a first draft, and doing the rewrites.

Today, the Middle East is full of young Americans slogging through mountain passes that deterred Alexander the Great, or risking their lives in semi-secret service on the plains of Iraq.

For me it was slogging through the opening paragraphs of an article I was writing for Astronomy Magazine.

It outlines important topics, guidelines, and necessary ways of thinking for sticking with a self - publishing career and slogging through the hard word that is (inevitably) required.

We follow every step of Paks's training, days of slogging through thick mud, and a multitude of battle scenes.

I like getting the APK files rather than slogging through a market app.

This list is far from complete, but it's one I've built up from actually slogging through the process; it's battle - tested.

After logging my dozens and dozens of rejections, slogging through a really painful experience with an agent that wasted three years I could have been releasing books, and with the markets changing so much, I finally realized what I had to do.

After more than a year (okay, it was two years), slogging through undiscovered country, I reached the rainbow.

Even after years slogging through the swamp of freelance writing, I'm still challenged by the process of marketing.

I just don't have time to keep up with the weekly reading, and trying to marathon issues just feels like slogging through a swamp.

I was slogging through the first couple of chapters wondering why everyone was raving about the book about some stuffy, typically stiff, English major but I kept at it and and grew to love the book.

Whereas what will really happen is I'll go play Skyrim or Diablo because that's way more fun than slogging through a story I don't like.

I've recently been slogging through multiple articles and sites about self - promotion for writers because I have two novels being traditionally published this year, and I must admit I'm SEVERELY overwhelmed not only by all the info available, but also by the numerous avenues by which a writer can and must promote his / her work... I hardly know where to start.

I find the base engine plenty sprightly, whether slogging through traffic or just blasting around town.

Likewise, the throttle was easier to modulate when slogging through stop - and - go traffic, and the electric power steering assumed a light feel.

But if you want a four - wheel - drive vehicle that earned its pedigree not by toting families around town, but by slogging through jungles, deserts and swamps, then you may want to take a look at the Land Rover Discovery.

The 196 - hp 2.5 - liter four - cylinder strains a bit in the 3,500 - pound sedan, though I was also slogging through ice and snow, revving the engine a bit higher than I should.

Slogging through town traffic was easy - going, with the transmission reading the situation perfectly.

In addition to being one of the best SUVs with a powered rear liftgate for 2016, the Jeep Cherokee is smooth, quiet, richly appointed, and remarkably comfortable — even while remaining thoroughly capable of slogging through mud, creeping down steep mountain trails, and clamoring over rocks and sand.

A seven - speed PDK automatic gearbox is optional and is worth considering for those expecting to do a lot of slogging through traffic.

Although not particularly powerful, the Sportage has a semi-rugged, tough feel while slogging through soft sand in four - wheel drive.

I would also spring for the $ 1,695 Magnetic Ride Control suspension, as it's worth every penny to have a car that can be both tight and entertaining on twisty roads and then be comfortable and forgiving for slogging through traffic at the press of a button.

Appropriately for the FF's four - seater design, it proved very comfortable slogging through traffic in the city or breezing along a boring freeway.

ECO retards everything, including fuel use, so the car feels like it's slogging through wet sand.

Because after all, how does one appear dignified while slogging through the great outdoors?

Like the BMW, the E43 is a model that was designed to provide a middle ground between a garden - variety E-Class and the hardcore performance of the E63 S. And, like the BMW, the E43 is much happier on your favorite back road or slogging through the daily commute than it is being pushed to 10 / 10ths out on a road course.

To see if the more functional Cruze has the stuff to be spoken about in the same breath as the AUTOMOBILE All - Star - winning Civic Sport hatch, we spent a week zipping around metro Detroit and slogging through the daily commute.

Such a system may seem out of place for a car designed to quickly eat up long stretches of the Autobahn, but is actually logical, considering a substantial number of these cars will no doubt spend much of their time slogging through urban gridlock.

Later, after slogging through many more textbooks in school, he decided, «There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting.»

Fashioning themselves the «United Students Against Sweatshops» (it's okay to laugh at that), these kids have taken TFA to task for being «the man» — and for turning teaching into sweatshop - like work by allowing some selected recruits to enter the classroom without slogging through the entirety of traditional teacher prep.

Yet users are still soaking up all the same knowledge they would be by slogging through a boring textbook.

There are thousands of other, more engaging things that they could be doing rather than slogging through something that bores them.

Today, though, I wanted to give you a quick head's up on some terrific iPod beach fodder to fill some of those summer hours that you won't spend slogging through my stilted prose.

In Spanish we spent weeks watching the «educational» and horrendously acted soap opera La Catrina and more weeks slogging through call - and - response lessons recorded 20 years earlier, on cassette.

Rachael Doornbos, a sustainable - systems student, went from slogging through trash at school to reading the riot act at home.

But the unsatisfying resolution doesn't come before slogging through the expected, would - be shocking revelations about Prot's past.

This was a good thing when we were watching the first trilogy — a thrill to see these iconic films through his 4 - year - old eyes — but has proven to be an endurance test now that we're slogging through the prequels.

It's sort of a relief to get back to the arena after slogging through the stale storyline previous to that.

One problem with the fast - paced combat is that it makes the rest of the game feel like you're slowly slogging through a swamp.