How to Use slough in a Sentence

slough

1 of 2 verb

• Bits of soft rock sloughed off in the blaze, and a huge fireball briefly flared like a torch in the night sky.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 25 June 2023
• The scale insects and sooty mold should slough off over a period of weeks.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
• Over time, the bits of rock sloughed off the comet drift away from its orbital path, so the meteors spread out in space.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
• La Prairie’s Foam Cleanser transforms from a rich cream to a silky mousse that deftly sloughs away dirt and oils.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2023
• And for any residual dullness that’s left on the skin, Goop’s dry brush will slough it off with ease.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
• The oil spray causes the sooty mold to gradually slough off.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2021
• This is what happened to at the Leon Trotsky House Museum where the cashier tried to slough off a 200-peso note off on me.
  — David Curran, Chron, 27 June 2022
• Edward is in the grip of a grotesque malady that causes his flesh to desiccate and slough away.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• This is exfoliation night—so get ready to clear your pores and slough away dead, dull skin.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 17 Sep. 2022
• Detox Shampoo is just the ticket to slough away dirt and oil while conditioning hair.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
• The three main characters slough off old personas, then slip into new ones.
  — Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• The bamboo spheres slough away dead skin while the hyaluronic acid and antioxidants boost and brighten.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2020
• So when their limbs are threatened, many harvestmen will simply slough them off and scram.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2021
• In court papers accusing Boeing of trying to slough off its share of the cleanup bill, the port said the total cost could top $1 billion.
  — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2023
• Add retinol to your routine to help slough away dead skin and lighten the appearance of dark marks left behind from breakouts.
  — Emily Burns, ELLE, 6 Dec. 2022
• Each one is long enough to slough even tough-to-reach places like your back, and comes in an assortment of gorgeous colors to match any bathroom scheme.
  — Kristina Rodulfo, ELLE, 10 Feb. 2020
• One high-end solution: a scrubber that uses vibration to slough away the remains of the day.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 17 Nov. 2020
• Use it wet or dry to increase blood circulation and slough off that dead winter skin.
  — Michelle Duncan, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
• It can be used with water or cleanser in circular motions to gently slough off dead skin cells.
  — Rebecca Deczynski, Health.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• Another, smaller portion of the bluffs farther north sloughed off in January due to the heavy rains, Valte said.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• Building a sloped storage tank that uses gravity to slough dust off of a surface could work, too, Sanders says.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2021
• During that process, many of those cells slough off and must be regenerated.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• Deborah Lippmann suggests even stashing a foot file or pumice stone in the shower and using it to slough off dead skin twice a week.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 15 June 2020
• These ingredients help slough away dead skin cells that can cause breakouts.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
• When tree trimmers climb the palm trunks and cut fronds from below, those fronds can suddenly slough downward and pin and suffocate the tree trimmer against the trunk.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2021
• The process involves using a chemical peel or a scrub to slough away dead skin cells from the top layer of your skin to reveal a smoother, more radiant look.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 19 July 2023
• This talented twofer not only creates space in your shower but also sloughs away dead skin from head to toe.
  — Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• But the prolonged swelling and other physical trauma damaged her skin so much that it’s been sloughing off in the days since the incident.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Some synthetics have additives that are designed to help slough off sludge.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 3 Dec. 2020
• Ulta is doing a buy more save more promo on body care products that will slough off dry winter skin and rehydrate you from head to toe.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024

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slough

2 of 2 noun

• On the descent, a large slough of snow caught Adam and ripped off one of his skis.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• But off to the side, his slough from the top loosened a giant pillow of snow.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2020
• The flock of perhaps 30 widgeon dipped low over the decoys swaying in the current of the tidal slough.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• The agency treated the slough with the fish killer rotenone on Saturday and Sunday.
  — Brandon Loomis, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• The three of us, along with a chocolate Lab and a golden retriever, sat in a blind built on a high bank above a slough.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• The venture joins what has been a slough of new restaurants and stores laying claim to Naperville’s Route 59 corridor.
  — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• The scene repeated itself four or five times in the first hour before Tyler and Trevor trudged into the muck-bottomed slough for a retrieval.
  — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
• The slough of Mardenborough's despond comes towards the end of the film when a crash at the Nürburgring results in the death of a spectator.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Cripple checkpoint, by contrast, is little more than a plywood shack near a spruce thicket on a frozen swampy slough.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2022
• The slough is a coastal estuary near Buccaneer Beach that’s stagnant most of the year and sometimes floods at high tide or during winter storms.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
• Another hunting party had set up on the far side and to avoid getting peppered with shot, I was specifically told not to go past a point on the slough.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
• The next day before daylight, wardens sat nearby listening for shots in the slough and not long after sunrise, hunters began shooting in the slough.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 19 Mar. 2021
• Philip would have argued that some sort of shield is required, by all of us, whatever our situation, to fend off any sudden blows and to steel us for the slough of boredom.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
• From the outside looking in, the Senate seems like an awful place, a slough of petty squabbling, partisan backbiting and oversized egos on the march.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• Pixi's Glow Tonic sloughs away dead skin and brightens scars using five percent glycolic acid.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• The social media site has been a slough of hate speech, disinformation and ad hominem attack, contributing in a major way to the polluting of our politics.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• But as farming continued, so did the de-watering of the lake, an effort that was supported by the state of California in the form of inexpensive land sales to those who agreed to help build levees and turn the sloughs to soil.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• The agency started the series a few weeks ago by literally stepping out the door of department headquarters in Salem and walking to a nearby slough of stagnant water.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
• Isolation aside, Alaska has changed its elections in way that may be a model for the rest of the country as the U.S. sinks ever lower into a slough of political nihilism and dysfunction.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Sisco said restoring the slough can be an example for bringing back more natural waterways.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• Sheriff's officials have said that when the woman was found in March 1995, her body was decomposing and may have been in the refrigerator for months before it was discovered partly submerged in a slough.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The appearance of a few young bass in the slough was not surprising, Yackulic said, especially since the river's warming has created a more welcoming environment.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
• Arriving passengers stepped into a slough of passageways, low-ceilinged alleys, skinny-people escalators, and halls like feedlots.
  — Curbed, 11 Feb. 2022
• Everglades National Park in Florida stretches 1.5 million acres, protecting nine different wilderness habitats including mangrove, freshwater slough and estuary.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2021
• On the descent, a large slough of snow caught Adam and ripped off one of his skis.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• But off to the side, his slough from the top loosened a giant pillow of snow.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2020
• The flock of perhaps 30 widgeon dipped low over the decoys swaying in the current of the tidal slough.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• The agency treated the slough with the fish killer rotenone on Saturday and Sunday.
  — Brandon Loomis, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022
• The three of us, along with a chocolate Lab and a golden retriever, sat in a blind built on a high bank above a slough.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• The venture joins what has been a slough of new restaurants and stores laying claim to Naperville’s Route 59 corridor.
  — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024