sludge

Example Sentences

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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 • Mar. 26, 2026

While the tariff sludge remains, markets digested mixed economic data.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Describing the sludge and silt in the tunnel area where Noah's body was eventually found, close to the M2 motorway, he said it "just sucks your feet under" in "absolutely freezing" conditions.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

For the purposes of “Crime 101,” that thoroughfare is reimagined as a quick escape route rather than the choked pipeline of sludge more familiar from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Maybe his fever is returning; maybe the sludge they drank in the hotel cellar has poisoned him.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr