sludge

Example Sentences

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The smog season regularly did a number on our mile-high mountains, wrapping them in a brown cloak of invisibility until wind and rain swept the sludge away.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

In the city of Uba, a two-hour drive away, residents were covered in mud as they cleared sludge from a river that had burst its banks.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

The Times built its own internal search engine to sort through the sludge.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

Tougher controls over the spreading of sewage and septic tank sludge to land as fertiliser in farming are also proposed, as are limits on using digestate from anaerobic digestion plants.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

The last hours of Boaz’s shift passed like sludge.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny