sludge

Example Sentences

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But as soon as she got one leg free, the other was sucked into the sticky sludge, her balance already a struggle with that missing front paw.

From Literature

The smog season regularly did a number on our mile-high mountains, wrapping them in a brown cloak of invisibility until wind and rain swept the sludge away.

From Los Angeles Times

He ripped it out, balled it up, then dropped it into the sludge of my ice cream bowl.

From Literature

The arrival of a hurricane means Evie, her little brother, Jack, and the other young people have problems of fresh urgency, including a flood of toxic sludge, that the adults seem unwilling to address.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the city of Uba, a two-hour drive away, residents were covered in mud as they cleared sludge from a river that had burst its banks.

From Barron's