slough
Example Sentences
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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
Meaning, they tried to blast each other with powder, basically slough a mini avalanche or powder storm on top of each other.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024
It probably gets into the water as bits slough off when the bottle is squeezed or gets exposed to heat.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 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
I heard her slough into the kitchen and open the fridge.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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