SLUR in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for SLUR, such as:

1. The comments cast a slur on her character.
2. Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
3. His head was hanging forward and his words were slurred.
4. You could tell from his slurred speech that he was drunk.
5. The general slurred over his contribution to the campaign.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slur
 v.  speak indistinctly; pass over carelessly or with little notice
Classic Sentence:
1  There's nobody in the County sits a horse better than Ashley," said Scarlett, furious at the slur of effeminacy flung on Ashley, "nobody except maybe his father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Thomasin thinks, and I think with her, that she ought to be Wildeve's wife, if she means to appear before the world without a slur upon her name.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
3  She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest trace of French accent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  So she thought as she was going home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black, distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy ironshod boots.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  When she spoke, her voice was not so slurred as most negroes' and she chose her words more carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  His head was hanging forward and his words were slurred.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this suggestion on the character of my beloved; indeed, when you are far away, Janet, I'll try to forget it: I shall notice only its wisdom; which is such that I have made it my law of action.
2  When Sol has too much to drink, he starts to slur his words: "Washamatter? Cansh you undershtand what I shay?".
3  The front-runner complained the opponent's staff used to slur his team at everywhere.
4  This is yet another slur on the integrity of the Metropolitan Police.
5  The comments cast a slur on her character.
6  A sorority sister at the University of Tennessee was suspended Thursday after video surfaced showing her making a racial slur.
7  The general slurred over his contribution to the campaign.
8  Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
9  You could tell from his slurred speech that he was drunk.
10  Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.