Though it took less than a minute, for Kirk the process seemed agonizingly slow.

The work of preparation for construction seemed, indeed, agonizingly slow.

She pulled her foot back, and began the agonizingly slow progress down.

He knew the present rate of change was agonizingly slow for her.

The pace of progress seems agonizingly slow to patients who know they only have 6 to 18 months more to live.

It has become the norm, and anything else seems agonizingly slow.

Her mind seemed to work at an agonizingly slow pace.

Reports from the operating room were agonizingly slow in coming.

The research goes on, but it is an agonizingly slow process.

The results of her medical exam were agonizingly slow in coming back.