Example sentences for: slashing

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

  • Will became opinion journalism's enfant terrible , slashing the dearest liberal icons and pushing a hard-right foreign policy.

  • A proposal to lure people into the District by slashing federal income tax rates for city residents got its second big boost in as many days yesterday when Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott joined House Speaker Newt Gingrich in endorsing it.

  • I remember, in art school, watching otherwise mild-mannered students hyperventilate, grimace, and lunge at their canvases, trying desperately to imitate de Kooning's slashing gestures.

  • The RPH might also believe in eliminating the income tax (Keyes), slashing the income tax and raising tariffs (Buchanan), or rejiggering the tax code to save taxpayers $985 billion (Ashcroft, by abolishing taxes on inheritances and on Social Security benefits, among other measures).

  • Let's go further and admit that Smith is not merely "kicking the tires of his faith"--he's slashing them.


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