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Example sentences for: slashes

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Annan's recent reform package cuts 1,000 jobs from the 10,000-person Secretariat, slashes administrative costs by one-third, and streamlines the United Nations' absurd bureaucracy.
("The master of clean, Calvin Klein pairs thongs and a strapless dress with symmetrical slashes in silver, lending an Eastern flavor to his minimalist ethic"-- Vogue .) Since this prose is often all the public gets, along with a few minimally informative photos, the long-term effect is to keep fashion looking much sillier than it actually is.
In despair, she slashes her wrists and ends up in a hospital, where she attempts to explain her bond with the killer to a psychiatrist (Stephen Rea, with an incongruous New York accent).
Interstate Highway 15 slashes through the desert and, before reaching the neon sprawl of Las Vegas, passes through Stateline — a smaller resort area with hotels, casinos, and a theme park.
Family members indicated with slashes have deletions or internal shifts in reading frame that interrupt otherwise related coding sequences (Figure 1).