Example sentences for: slugged

How can you use “slugged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The column, which instead turns out to be about Ronald Reagan being so profoundly solipsistic that he couldn't remember the names of his dogs or children is slugged "My Boy Spot."

  • The story is slugged, "Thousands Protest Visit, U.S.

  • Slug (as a verb): To run under the headline of (e.g., "The Chicago Tribune slugged the story, 'Teen births fall to record low' ").

  • Some quality control problems noted at the WP : 1) A story about trials of an experimental anti-autism drug is slugged by the paper "Treatment Counters Autism" even though the story goes on to explain that the drug worked no better in the studies than placebos given to the control group; 2) an AP story the paper runs about a credit card scam targeting senior military officers fails to mention that the Wall Street Journal broke the news yesterday; 3) over a heart-wrenching story about a 9-year-old boy who concealed the accidental death of his mother for a month, leaving her body in their home because he was afraid of being sent to an orphanage, the Post goes with the bad taste headline of the year, century, and millennium: "MOTHER DIED, BUT BOY, 9, KEPT MUM."

  • The Times story is slugged, "BRADLEY REBUTS GORE ON HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY," while the Post opts for "GORE LIES REPEATEDLY, BRADLEY SAYS."


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