Example sentences for: slits

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

  • Nolte's eyes are slits in dough, and his huge gestures might be an attempt to compensate for their tininess.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In Beloved (1987), for example, an escaped slave slits her infant's throat to prevent its capture by slave hunters.

  • 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."


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