slough

Example Sentences

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Meaning, they tried to blast each other with powder, basically slough a mini avalanche or powder storm on top of each other.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 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

There was a slough where our mother took us to pick orange berries.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston