Example sentences for: slough

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  • This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!

  • Checking myself out in the dressing-room mirror, I realized that in these pants, I would never again be fearful of that other nightmare of bourgeois life, the moment in which you sense that your middle-class prosperity, your high-tech skills, your credit cards, and the advertising industry all give you license to slough off your work ethic, relax your discipline, and lower your guard.

  • When a widow, bereft of her husband, and deep in his debts, sought to marry anew, she must first slough off his obligations.

  • Felicity didn't just alienate Noel and her best friend and land herself a boyfriend who gives every sign of being a sleazebag (and whom one hopes she'll slough off within an episode or two).

  • If this seems far-fetched, consider that a major American silver polish company began when a Mr. Wright of New Hampshire extricated one of his cows from a slough in a wet part of a field and was tipped off by the whitish mud clinging to the animal's feet to the presence of what proved to be a surprisingly large deposit of calcium-rich diatomaceous earth.


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