sludge
Example Sentences
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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 • Feb. 25, 2026
The Times built its own internal search engine to sort through the sludge.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026
Tougher controls over the spreading of sewage and septic tank sludge to land as fertiliser in farming are also proposed, as are limits on using digestate from anaerobic digestion plants.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
The book, co-authored by the brand’s founder, is a pointed history of commercial pet food that leaves the reader uneasy that their dog might be consuming toxic sludge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
One of us would go off to fetch and filter water while the other prepared a sludge of steamy noodles.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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