slake

Example Sentences

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EnoTrans focused on “overcustomization” by Sound Transit to slake community demands, and the average five-year planning phase.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things We have created, cattle and men in great numbers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2023

For what would have been the price of a ticket to the movies, customers also got bottomless soda refills to help slake what many expected would be a vengeful thirst from eating all that popcorn.

From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2022

Appeasement — the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to slake Hitler’s appetite for conquest — ordained a dark future.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

We slake our thirst, let the warm water pour over our itching bodies.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins