Example sentences for: slashed

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

  • Apparently, Furrow's was a borderline case: He had slashed his wrists, tried to stab workers at a mental health facility, and constantly talked about his violent, racist fantasies; on the other hand, he had had only one run-in with the law, had sought psychiatric care, held a degree in engineering, and had held numerous jobs, including one at the Boeing Co.

  • He has slashed his own salary by a third, sold the union's fleet of private jets, and canceled the conferences at five-star Hawaiian hotels.

  • Maine voters legalized limited marijuana use and Washington state voters slashed car taxes.

  • They have slashed welfare rolls and unemployment.

  • The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.


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