sludge

But if those particles are collected inside a flask, they form a dense suspension of burned tobacco -- a tar-like sludge.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

The kind of groove your tires make driving to Big Bear in December without chains: an icy trench filled with frustration, exhaustion and everyday sludge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The wave tore through the Rasuwagadhi hydropower plant where Adhikari worked, swallowing buildings and leaving only dark-gray sludge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

To get in, they had to navigate more than 60 feet of stairs that had been covered in slippery sludge.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

"When sewage sludges are spread across the fields, those toxic compounds could be released into the air," Katz said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2026

These little guys live in basically every natural setting in the world, including deserts, soils, and, in particularly unlucky cases, the sludges of the human body.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024

While working in a lab in the Netherlands in the late 2000s, Strous noticed that a type of methane-feeding bacteria often found in lake sediments and wastewater sludges had a strange way of life.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2023

For players and officials both as the NHL sludges through this pandemic with a human toll being taken nightly at arenas, including one the Kraken calls home.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

With regard to the manurial value of the resulting sludges, much difference of opinion has existed.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman