Example sentences for: slaked

How can you use “slaked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The thirst for detailed information on the art's significance or the artist's life and times was best slaked before or after.

  • If the lust of a shopper's eye is slaked by actual purchase, her willing feet accept the challenge, her active spirit expands.

  • I had slaked my thirst for O.J. news by reading Harry Shearer.

  • If such behavior is a legitimate story, why has it taken six years to find out that Clinton's rapacious sexual appetite has apparently never been slaked but simply changed venue?

  • Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.


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