How to Use slake in a Sentence

slake

verb

• But even an inch of water could slake the thirst of a few of her cows and maybe some wild elk and deer, too.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• Here was a lone bighorn sheep on Death Canyon Shelf, near the trickling stream that would slake our thirst.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Not even the blood-thirstiest horror hounds will be able to slake their thirst for gore with this one.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Some buddies would walk in looking to slake their thirst.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022
• But nothing feels good about envy, nor is there any clear way to slake it.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Others bore enough Heineken beer to slake the thirst of every adult in San Francisco for a year.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Wings cry out for libation, and fresh-fruit daiquiris can slake a thirst enhanced by jerk sauce.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• Biden was elected to slake the poison, bridge divides and solve problems.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
• May's the perfect month to squeeze in a bonus trip to slake that thirst for vacation that's already kicking in.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2018
• Brown landscapes turn green, dusts become muds, cracks turn into mouths through which the earth slakes its thirst.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• New Englanders are blessed with abundant rainfall most years, enough to soak our soils and to slake our thirsts.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• Grisette: The grisette is an easy-drinking style originally brewed in Belgium to slake the thirst of miners.
  — oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
• And each day, another Wordle to slake my thirst for puzzles.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Beset by heat, wine lovers will turn to an ice-cold rosé to slake our thirst, after hydrating with water, of course.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• Instead, Diyala’s farmers have had to rely on roughly 200 wells to slake their orchards’ thirst as well as their own.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Maybe that guy will build the fastest car on Earth, or design a new way to desalinate seawater to slake the world’s thirst, or find a way into space on his own.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• In their dying hours, Dostum’s captives licked the sweat off their neighbors’ skin in a desperate attempt to slake their thirst.
  — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• There are enough people pushing hot chicken in Los Angeles to slake the most severe of cravings.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2021
• The Masquerade who can’t their RPG group together can still slake their thirst on these excellent games.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The Versai, layered with fried catfish, carrots and pickled cabbage and slaked with a sauce of satsumas (mandarin oranges) and chile, calls to mind the sweet-sour tang of banh mi.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• This is still not enough to slake Cambodia’s growing thirst for cement, expected to reach five million tons this year.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• Among the film’s most piercing scenes are a couple of doozies set in the local watering hole, where Leslie gravitates to slake her thirst and to escape the judgment of her grudging hosts.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
• The world of this series is one in which carnivores have, by and large, given up eating meat to live alongside herbivores, but the urge to slake their thirst for blood is a hard one to overcome.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
• Instead, the damage from the nastiest election in decades seems to multiply by the week, stifling all efforts to slake its poison, and looks certain to linger for years.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 June 2018
• Last spring, runners in the London Marathon were handed edible seaweed pouches at mile 23 containing a sports drink to slake their thirst.
  — Laura Parker, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
• Arriving like fine British clockwork at the end of this very uncozy year are two titles that will slake your thirst for clues, red herrings and, most of all, familiarity.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Luckily for those of us who are fired up about the discovery of the Endurance shipwreck, there is plenty to read and watch to slake our thirst for polar adventure and suffering.
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2022
• Animals gather, too, seeking water to slake their thirst.
  — AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• As automakers try to slake our SUV thirst, the differences between multiple segments are thin.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• The social internet sometimes seems to exist to slake our thirst for enchantment during our daily rounds.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024