slake

Example Sentences

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Done with the workweek, they are eager to slake their thirst.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

Krantz and his colleagues were keenly aware of the case of Owens Lake, about 300 miles to the north, whose tributaries had been diverted in 1913 to slake a thirsty and rapidly growing Los Angeles.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023

For what would have been the price of a ticket to the movies, customers also got bottomless soda refills to help slake what many expected would be a vengeful thirst from eating all that popcorn.

From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2022

Appeasement — the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to slake Hitler’s appetite for conquest — ordained a dark future.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

We slake our thirst, let the warm water pour over our itching bodies.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins