slime

Only a few days after the pool was refilled, though, it reverted what it always is: a filthy slime pit that nevertheless does an adequate job of its primary objective: reflecting.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

"Millipedes were feeding on decaying mosses, decomposed slime, and primordial gunk on the surface of the Earth."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

Glow worms, slime moulds and rare lichens are among 1,109 species discovered in just one corner of Scotland's rainforest.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Claire’s first advertising campaign under the new owners is a dreamlike, colorful celebration of the five senses featuring bubble writing, gummy candies, press-on nails and the requisite slime in digital, social media and influencer ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

The dress was a little small and fish slime wouldn’t be an improvement.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

To this day, many biological slimes haven’t been researched enough to know the details of their structure and behavior.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2023

Familiar monsters, from slimes to sabercats, abound, but now the kids can recruit the beasts to help them hunt for loot.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

The slime room housed a “bunch of slimes she had made, a bunch of slimes she bought and then a bunch of things that, like, make slime,” Ellie says.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022

It's a pure troll, meant to be so beyond the pale that even responding to it slimes the person falsely accused.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022

It seems that one of Ebola’s paths goes from the dead to the living, winding in trickles of uncoagulated blood and slimes that come out of the dead body.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In his lead single for the album, the musician used a photo of Halle Berry being slimed at the Kids Choice Awards without her consent.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2023

Only to tyrannize behind the scenes and invariably whack others for his mistakes — coaches, general managers, executives by the score finding themselves slurred and slimed and used as human shields.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

Besides the virtual slime cannons in the end zones, there will be a slime booth at AT&T Stadium on Sunday where Prescott or Garoppolo can get slimed if they are so inclined.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

But I’m not sure why the same contemporary critics who slimed “Olympia” now get to have the definitive word on which Manets matter most.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019

Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another’s nostrils.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

But an end to the lurid, sliming, morale-breaking, goodwill-sapping 24 years of Snyder’s ownership is surely worth a parade.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Mr. Parnell, a decorated Army veteran of the war in Afghanistan, has denied wrongdoing and called on his rival to quit the GOP primary race for sliming his family.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

But basic cable package viewers at home were immune to the smell, and the response from people who saw the sliming was overwhelmingly positive.

From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017

The beast’s green tongue rasped across her visor, sliming the lower section.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer