Poke
Snail
Snail verb - To move slowly.
Usage example: the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
Both words in one sentence
- The analogy he draws between the mind and the body is that of the snail and the snail-shell; if you poke holes in the snail-shell, will the snail live?
- Eventually, they do inconvenience adults; a news report lists some of the things the robots are destroying, such as golf clubs, trains, buses, airplanes, and "anything that can poke your eye out or that moves faster than a snail".
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