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Example sentences for: slashes

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

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.
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).
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.
Family members indicated with slashes have deletions or internal shifts in reading frame that interrupt otherwise related coding sequences (Figure 1).