Example Sentences

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I’d explain how my daughter sloughed off embryos that were surgically implanted at $30,000 a pop.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2024

The strongest visual effect of suspended sediment was the aggregation of sediment particles on the jellyfish after just ~1.5 hours of incubation, to which the jellyfish started to produce excess mucus that slowly sloughed off.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

Over time, the bits of rock sloughed off the comet drift away from its orbital path, so the meteors spread out in space.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2023

Oscar winner Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, a sharp-tongued veteran spy and the supervisor of Slough House, where intelligence officers who have fallen out of favor are sloughed aside.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt