Example sentences for: slash

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

  • It is indeed scarcely wider than a sword slash, crossed by a miniature iron suspension bridge brought from Scotland and portered in at the turn of the century.

  • As a result, when Thais and Malaysians are forced to slash purchases of new cars or investment in earth-moving equipment, Japan feels it long before the United States does.

  • When President Clinton refused to accept such restrictions in the 1996 and 1997 budgets, the House leadership retaliated by threatening to slash and delay family-planning appropriations.

  • In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  • Just as Forbes accused Dole of playing sneaky "Washington politics" in 1996, Bradley now castigates Gore for resorting to the typical "Washington politics" of slash and burn.


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