slough

Can Andy Burnham pull the U.K. out of its slough?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV’s ‘The Love Boat,’ sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

While disease is a natural part of marine ecosystems, increased runoff, global climate change and a slough of human impacts stress corals and cause disease.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023

Staying with me for just a second, she jumped in the slough and swam back to the other side.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The soil burns and sloughs off, leading to massive post-fire erosion that smothers coral, impacts fisheries and reduces the quality of the ocean water, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

But there's no small amount of controversy when it comes to marshes, mires, fens, bogs, vernal pools, prairie ponds, pocosins, sloughs, small streams, seasonal streams, and rain-dependent streams.

From Salon ● May 2, 2023

Signs of snowmelt-fueled deluge were everywhere in famed Yosemite Valley on Saturday as the normally placid Merced River surged over its banks, swamping roads, erasing swimming beaches, and turning meadows into murky sloughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

In the room beyond the landing, the burning curtain sloughs off its rod.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.’s move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

I’d explain how my daughter sloughed off embryos that were surgically implanted at $30,000 a pop.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2024

The strongest visual effect of suspended sediment was the aggregation of sediment particles on the jellyfish after just ~1.5 hours of incubation, to which the jellyfish started to produce excess mucus that slowly sloughed off.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

Bits of soft rock sloughed off in the blaze, and a huge fireball briefly flared like a torch in the night sky.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2023

He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

However, some men have ended up in A&E with a penis turning black and skin "sloughing off" after a botched procedure.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

At best, the idea relates to some kind of individual flourishing, the opposite of corporate serfdom, a sloughing off of organizational chains leading to an explosion of creativity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

And yet here he is, sloughing off yet another weekend for the cause—ignoring all evidence to the contrary that a better world is possible.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2025

Rather than correct them, Liz decides to keep up the pretense — no great stretch for someone so used to sloughing off and trying on one alias after another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

The school was an old two-story building with bro­ken windows and dim, cobblestone hallways, patches of its origi­nal dull yellow paint still showing between sloughing chunks of plaster.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini