How to Use slosh in a Sentence

slosh

1 of 2 noun

• Earth has many steady background hums, the most prevalent of which comes from the slosh of oceans and the crash of waves against the shore.
  — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
• There's no purchase when the slosh gets rutted and deep enough.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• In the basement, a load of laundry sloshes in the washer.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• Ken rustled papers on his desk, fighting a weird slosh of tears.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Garlic chopped to a fine mist and warmed with clam juice and olive oil sloshes under the baked littlenecks, a dozen to an order.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• Just like an ocean wave is a slosh of water and a sound wave is a movement of air, gravitational waves are likewise the motion of a medium.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
• At one moment, a massive wall of water will build and at the last second slosh against the shore, while another more sneaky operator will thunder in and send spray a dozen feet into the air.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• As the helium sloshes, the collisions cause some of the helium atoms to flip orientation.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2018
• Using anti-slosh dams inside the reservoir, designers aimed to prevent fluid from moving around when low.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2018
• Her most important paintings, especially the violent loops and sloshes from the months after Pollock’s death and the stormlike monochromes of the 1960s, have an authority that can survive even the sleepiest hang.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• And then picture that through these intestines coursed not only this morning’s breakfast in a slosh of digestive juices but another unlikely component: oxygen.
  — Sarah B. Puschmann Staff Writer, Fox News, 17 July 2017
• Those lakes are filled with methane and ethane rather than water, and any inhabitants would have to deal with temperatures reaching 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but where liquid sloshes, life might find a way.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2020
• Earth has many steady background hums, the most prevalent of which comes from the slosh of oceans and the crash of waves against the shore.
  — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
• There's no purchase when the slosh gets rutted and deep enough.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• In the basement, a load of laundry sloshes in the washer.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• Ken rustled papers on his desk, fighting a weird slosh of tears.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Garlic chopped to a fine mist and warmed with clam juice and olive oil sloshes under the baked littlenecks, a dozen to an order.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• Just like an ocean wave is a slosh of water and a sound wave is a movement of air, gravitational waves are likewise the motion of a medium.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
• At one moment, a massive wall of water will build and at the last second slosh against the shore, while another more sneaky operator will thunder in and send spray a dozen feet into the air.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• As the helium sloshes, the collisions cause some of the helium atoms to flip orientation.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2018
• Using anti-slosh dams inside the reservoir, designers aimed to prevent fluid from moving around when low.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2018
• Her most important paintings, especially the violent loops and sloshes from the months after Pollock’s death and the stormlike monochromes of the 1960s, have an authority that can survive even the sleepiest hang.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• And then picture that through these intestines coursed not only this morning’s breakfast in a slosh of digestive juices but another unlikely component: oxygen.
  — Sarah B. Puschmann Staff Writer, Fox News, 17 July 2017
• Those lakes are filled with methane and ethane rather than water, and any inhabitants would have to deal with temperatures reaching 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but where liquid sloshes, life might find a way.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2020

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slosh

2 of 2 verb

• The child sloshed the water in the tub.
• Juice sloshed over the rim of her glass.
• Water sloshed in the bottom of the boat as it rocked.
• The children sloshed through the big puddle.
• The pond will slosh around for a bit and then become still again.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2018
• The trap is shaped like the bottom of a bowl, so the atoms gently slosh back and forth.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
• But the same ladle was sloshed between the red and white sauce vats.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
• Snag tickets to a West End play, ride the London Eye, and slosh around in the many parks.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2023
• And Meyers, indeed, did seem quite sloshed by the end of it.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2023
• As the clock struck noon and time ran out, the last bit of paint was sloshed onto the last picket.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• The tides that slosh the oceans back and forth affect rotation speeds, and so does the wind.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
• Crocs and Kevlar gloves and weapons-grade sunglasses slosh around the bilge.
  — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
• Dress up, too: The chic crowds here have more on their minds than just getting sloshed.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• The flood rises above their heads as the wind howls and floating cars slosh at the surface.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2018
• The electrons should be thought of as waves, sloshing around the nuclei.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• The soft soil behaves like a liquid, sloshing back and forth between the troughs and peaks of the waves.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• The up and down drafts of these currents push against the wings of planes, and if the shoves are strong and sudden, drinks start sloshing.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 1 July 2023
• Soon, the squalid sea water that runs beneath Hong Kong’s streets sloshed around his knees.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
• Pour some of this cleaner into the bowl and use a toilet brush to slosh it around the bowl and scrub up under the rim.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• Waves sloshed back and forth in the 5-gallon jug atop my water cooler.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• In the Valley, money still counts, of course: Billions of dollars slosh across the Bay Area.
  — Ismail Muhammad, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2020
• So as the light drives the electrons, the electrons can only slosh from one end of the nanoparticle to the other.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• That sloshing movement happens on a large scale, too, in lakes and bays.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
• The toilets in those many bathrooms may end up sloshing around on windy days.
  — Curbed, 5 July 2023
• Be sure to move the liquid around (slosh and splash it a bit) to ensure every side and corner gets wet.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 12 July 2023
• Its steel pet bowl is sturdy with a rubbery base to keep it from sloshing around.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• If the storm hits during high tide, more water will slosh inland.
  — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
• The hot water sloshes down my ear canal like an aural Neti Pot.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• That would spread out in all directions, sloshing the fluid up and down.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
• But every few years, the trade winds that blow from east to west weaken, allowing that warm water to slosh eastward and pile up along the equator.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023

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