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

Kelly has run the slough exhibition three times since 2014.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 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

“Don’t tell Curley I said none of this. He’d slough me. He just don’t give a damn. Won’t ever get canned ‘cause his old man’s the boss.”

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck