slough
Example Sentences
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While disease is a natural part of marine ecosystems, increased runoff, global climate change and a slough of human impacts stress corals and cause disease.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023
After a week or two, slough off their dried, leathery skin and pulp to reveal the beans within.
From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2023
There I was, padding about in a dressing-gown, making a slough of sentiment out of a commonplace hotel bedroom.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
