slough
Example Sentences
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It’s the sort of drill where it’s easy enough to slough off a rep or two.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
It probably gets into the water as bits slough off when the bottle is squeezed or gets exposed to heat.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 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
When too many hairs build up in their gut, they slough off the lining and regurgitate it.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
He climbed the high fence, found the two-by-twelve plank that served as a bridge across the slough of dark water, and came out between Lang’s Bakery and the tinsmith’s shop on Castroville Street.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing slough
"Of Mice and Men"
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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