slow on the uptake in a sentence

Examples

1. Was he too slow on the uptake?
2. Brockway said " for a psychology student, Ash is pretty slow on the uptake.
3. You're slow on the uptake.
4. But if New York has been slow on the uptake, it is making up for lost time.
5. The plot is sometimes too involved, and Denise has a tendency to be slow on the uptake.
6. I may be slow on the uptake, but did I hear Secretary of State Madeleine Albright correctly?
7. If you really still don't understand your goof, then you are slow on the uptake.
8. They're a mite slow on the uptake, and didn't send out a preview tape.
9. The about face followed criticism from Democratic rival John Kerry that Bush, a former oilman, was slow on the uptake.
10. Her band was occasionally a tick slow on the uptake; her frustration at being a smidgen less than thoroughly professional was palpable.