Example sentences for: sloughed

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

  • Unlike Hillary, Eleanor ignored personal insults, sloughed off negative news."

  • Meanwhile, the Times sloughed its Old Gray Lady persona for the daredevilry that was the Post franchise.

  • During migration, more cells than normal were sloughed off and left behind in the slime trail.

  • The 1996 elections had no sooner sloughed into despond than I came across the following sentence in an election-eve wrap-up by Michael Lewis in the New Republic . "There is no denying," Lewis wrote, in the finale to an antic "Campaign Journal" series that saw him parting the crowds around various presidential entourages with the prosthetic assistance of a television Steadycam on his shoulder, "that I was excited by working alongside Ted Koppel, driven less by a Fallovian desire to inform the public than a lust to become rich and famous."


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