How to Use sludge in a Sentence

sludge

noun
  • I can't bring myself to read that sludge.
  • But some of the sludge had breached the sandbags, spilling close to the road.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2022
  • One night, the weight of the sludge became more than the dam could bear.
    Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2020
  • But Halden’s research was the first to find them in sewage sludge.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
  • Is this not the very bottom of the boiling sludge pit that has been 2020?
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The foot of water covering the field was green, the sludge thick.
    Zia Ur-Rehman Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Now push a thick rag through the trap to wipe out any sludge or debris.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Bonar kept the fish until the post-fire sludge had washed through and settled.
    Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2020
  • In the mid-1970s, the district and its sludge had different names.
    Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Be careful not to go too close to the water’s edge, as the sludge will suck the shoes right off your feet.
    Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • She had been trapped for days with just her cat and still didn’t know when the sludge would recede.
    Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2021
  • She had been trapped for days with just her cat, and still didn’t know when the sludge would recede.
    New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Back at her own apartment, sludge and debris blocked the front door.
    Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Even after the sludge erased most of the town, residents have fought to keep their land.
    Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But that didn’t bring much solace to those closer to the rising brown sludge.
    New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Above the empty MetLife Stadium stands, the sky was sludge-gray.
    New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Larvae squirm through the sludge that covers the dirty dishes filling the sink.
    Jennifer Reese, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • But the bridge is still too low for the barge carrying sludge once a week from a site in Bergen County, N.J.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • He was framed, but the echoes of the imprisonment stick to Joe like toxic sludge.
    Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Once that sludge is removed, the water is sent out to Eagle Creek.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Pumps are plugged with trash, drains are clogged, and floors are covered with water or sludge.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2022
  • His orders are to take control of our sewer pipes and sludge.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The lake stinks, and signs go up warning that the toxic sludge can sicken children and kill pets.
    Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
  • Cities have also begun to use the sludge as a source of energy.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2022
  • From one of the ship’s drain holes, a steaming pink sludge cascades into the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean.
    Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Her sister’s house, right next door, was covered by sludge.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Layers of sludge and debris can also be seen on the driveway.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The grenade goes off and turns the entire car into zombie soup, bits of red sludge dripping from the ceiling.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Aniston appeared stunned as the sludge dripped to the floor and spackled the extras surrounding her.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 July 2024
  • This newsletter was created to the sludge metal riffs of High on Fire.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024

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