SLOUGH in a Sentence

Learn SLOUGH 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.

Example sentences for SLOUGH, such as:

1. Each spring, the snakes slough off their skin.
2. All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow.
3. The president wanted to slough off the country's bad image.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLOUGH
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slough
 v.  cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; discard as refuse
Classic Sentence:
1  There are shadows enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre or a frog.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
2  In the Luniere fontis, it would have taken a man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five minutes by the Philippeaux slough.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
3  There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I don't know where, but it didn't go to the river.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
4  She must find some way out of the slough into which she had stumbled: it was not so much compunction as the dread of her morning thoughts that pressed on her the need of action.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  She seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.
2  All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow.
3  The president wanted to slough off the country's bad image.
4  Each spring, the snakes slough off their skin.