SLIT in a Sentence

Learn SLIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

32 example sentences for SLIT, such as:

1. They say somebody slit her throat.
2. He slit open the envelope with a knife.
3. Giles slit the flap of an apparently business document.
4. We made two slits for the eyes and a perpendicular line for the nose.
5. It was furiously slit and slashed by the knifelike fire from the rifles.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slit
 n.  long, straight, narrow cut or opening; slot; pocket
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  Giles slit the flap of an apparently business document.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
3  But the night-dress was slit almost in two.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  There was no slit through which a knife could be passed to raise the bar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
5  His pulse was feeble and intermittent, but his breathing grew longer, and there was a little shivering of his eyelids, which showed a thin white slit of ball beneath.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
6  The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
7  The first ones had been caused by some one forcing an instrument through the slit between the sashes, and the second by the catch being pressed back.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
8  I had closed the slit between the curtains as Milverton's face had turned in our direction, but now I ventured very carefully to open it once more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9  Melanie's eyes opened a slit and then, as if having satisfied herself that it was really Scarlett, she closed them again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
10  She lay back, looking about the poor slit of a room with a renewal of physical distaste.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South American ponchos.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  Neither squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to them; one by one they hooked up the hogs, and one by one with a swift stroke they slit their throats.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  It was furiously slit and slashed by the knifelike fire from the rifles.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  When I came down again, I found Joe and Orlick sweeping up, without any other traces of discomposure than a slit in one of Orlick's nostrils, which was neither expressive nor ornamental.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
15  I had fallen into my serene state one evening, when we heard a letter dropped through the slit in the said door, and fall on the ground.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  He slit open the envelope with a knife.
2  They say somebody slit her throat.
3  Peeking through a slit he spied a man hand a boy a baseball glove, though he could not see their faces.
4  We made two slits for the eyes and a perpendicular line for the nose.