slit
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And singer Rose, a multiple Grammy nominee this year for "APT," her banger collab with Bruno Mars, wore a chic strapless black dress with a high slit and an outsized bird brooch at her waist.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Knowing approximately when to head home for the day could be guessed by examining nature—even by looking at a sheep’s pupils, which go from a rectangular slit to a wide orb as the light fades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
However, when observed, they acted like particles passing through one slit or the other.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
I’ve got to be able to step in the dress,’” says Preston, adding that she asked for a modular slit in the dress for scenes when she needed to run or walk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Not one of the galleries has a skylight, although some have one or two slender slits atop the walls that admit weak slivers of borrowed light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Battling strong currents, Ralph Pace captured this image of a swell shark egg case, revealing a glowing embryo, complete with gill slits and a yolk sac.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
She’s wearing a long, drapey skirt with high slits that reveal her tattooed legs, and her signature nails click against one another as she gestures with her hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
It found that these particles, which can either act like a particle or wave, acted as waves passing through both slits in the experiment when they were unobserved.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
Her face is red and her eyes are narrow slits of rage.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Pork is not halal, and other animals, such as chicken, beef and lamb, must be slaughtered under certified-halal standards such as the humane slitting of the throat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
The rough scrape of a spoon scouring the empty cup of a emptied avocado, the stitching of a paring knife slitting a vanilla bean pod.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2018
The Arizona Republican Party, they’re just slitting their own throats,’ said John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, which has a larger population than St. Louis.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2018
But Cline – eager to escape her own poor, working-class origins in Virginia – found it preferable to her previous job slitting chicken throats on an assembly line.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017
And in the four hundred years Kino’s people had learned only one defense—a slight slitting of the eyes and a slight tightening of the lips and a retirement.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
