slough
Example Sentences
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Kelly has run the slough exhibition three times since 2014.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024
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
Despite it all, the Oregon Democrat described himself as “pathologically upbeat” and suggested there’s a way out of today’s slough of congressional dysfunction.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
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
I heard her slough into the kitchen and open the fridge.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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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