1 Marking the exam papers was quite a slog.

2 The teacher made us slog through long lists of vocabulary.

3 He started to slog his way up the hill.

4 It's a long hard slog up the mountain.

5 And that was a real slog from Kumar.

6 Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.

7 He started to slog his way through the undergrowth.

8 This season has been a hard slog.

9 It'll be a slog, but I know we can do it.

10 The two teams will slog it out for second place.

11 You just have to sit down and slog through long lists of new vocabulary.

12 It was a long slog to the top of the mountain.

13 The exams were a real hard slog but I'm glad I did them.

14 The campaign promises to be a long,[] hard slog.

15 Just hard slog to move up the world rankings.

16 Then came Edinburgh and the long hard slog of a medical degree and the various hospital training jobs that followed.

17 But then, so do the 49ers as they slog their way through three more utterly meaningless games.

18 The answer is that you would have to slog it out all the way from London to Baghdad.

19 After a long approach slog, reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you're getting somewhere at last.

20 The season had been a hard slog and he felt a break was in the player's interests.

21 Occasionally he would step down the wicket and slog my straight medium pacer straight and high over my head.

22 From there it was a hard slog to Tokai but, once there, the wine!

23 The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.

24 That last hill before the finishing-line was a long slog!

25 There is little to show for the two years of hard slog.

26 Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant, grim-faced and tight-lipped, to slog on alone.

27 Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.

28 But it was also going to be a boring slog.

29 The Charlatans know this. With their inbuilt Brit arrogance, they are avoiding the back-breaking circuit slog.

30 The first aspect that presents itself is one of sheer hard slog!

1 The teacher made us slog through long lists of vocabulary.

31 It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again ... if you're lucky!

32 Slog away at your studies.

33 School is a hard slog.

34 It is a long hard slog up the mountain.

35 It will be a slog to make a big dent in the nation's unemployment numbers.

36 I eventually got financial backing, but it was a slog.

37 Why should Melissa have to slog around the supermarket on her own?

38 We know that seniority, especially in finance, is a long, hard, unglamorous slog.

39 Working hard makes you feel better about yourself and, after a prolonged period of hard slog, you feel sufficiently virtuous to enjoy a bout of self-indulgence with the gayest abandon.

40 But most choose to slog unhappily on with their sham and desolate unions.

41 The men had to slog up a steep muddy incline.

42 Like Eduardo before him, Ramsey will face a mental test after the physical slog of recovering his fitness.

43 What happens to the supply of willing musicians when the prize is an endless slog through medium-size concerts at $25 a head?

44 If ever there has been a long hard slog of a season this was it.

45 I've just returned from what is likely to be the most harrowing investigative jaunt of my career, a four-day slog through teeming streets filled with screaming children.

46 But etymonline offers two other possibilities, a slang expression "fire a slug" that used to mean take a drink, or from Irish slog that meant swallow.

47 Many drivers — strung out from the long desert slog — prefer to push through the night rather than staying in the seedy roadside inns that serve up young prostitutes as cheaply as mugs of millet beer.

48 But there must be no talk of final victory; rather, the long, hard slog to a solution.

49 I slog my guts out and get paid only a hundred pounds a week.

50 Still Captain Buller broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog square leg.

51 That is working — particularly in Romania — but it is a slow slog elsewhere.