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Example sentences for: slits

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

The bottom of each cylinder was closed with a polyethylene cap with two slits, where ends of a 1.3 × 23 cm (width × length) wick of absorbent paper were inserted.
In Beloved (1987), for example, an escaped slave slits her infant's throat to prevent its capture by slave hunters.
He has a heart attack in 1968, leaves his wife in 1969, and on Feb. 25, 1970, slits his wrists and dies on the studio floor.
Sometimes two pieces were sewn up the sides and across the shoulders, with slits left for head and arms, to be slid on and belted or sashed--very basic, a few sizes would drape to fit all.
The NYT front-page pic of Clinton touching Yitzhak Rabin's headstone reveals the president's thousand-yard stare, and the LAT reports that Clinton looked fatigued and that by the end of his day in Israel "his eyes had narrowed to slits."