slake

Example Sentences

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EnoTrans focused on “overcustomization” by Sound Transit to slake community demands, and the average five-year planning phase.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 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

That left me to slake my pie lust whenever one turned up at church potlucks or extended family gatherings.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2022

The fierce beast had made a kill; her jaws were bloody and she was coming to slake her thirst in the spring.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton