slurry

American  

[slur-ee] / ˈslɜr i /

noun

• slurries
  plural

1. a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.

2. Ceramics. a thin slip.

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verb (used with object)

slurried, slurrying

1. to prepare a suspension of (a solid in a liquid).

adjective

1. of or relating to such a suspension.

slurry British  

/ ˈslʌrɪ /

noun

1. a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, as in a mixture of cement, clay, coal dust, manure, meat, etc with water

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• slurries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of slurry

1400–50; late Middle English slory; perhaps akin to slur

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

slurry slurries slurried

He recalled how an avalanche of slurry swept through the school just minutes after lessons began.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The incident saw a junior school and surrounding houses in the village engulfed in coal slurry after a colliery spoil tip collapsed on 21 October 1966.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

During rain, dry ash turns into a dense slurry that makes clearance work harder.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

“U.S. Lime has a net-cash balance sheet. Texas is continuing to grow. Lime slurry is used to stabilize the ground for construction in Texas,” Monroe said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

It was fresh water—it had been fresh water hours before—but now it was clogged with ash and mud, an undrinkable slurry that simply marked the area next to the road without providing any relief.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

CMP is a critical process using chemical slurries and mechanical polishing to create perfectly flat, smooth wafer surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

"This is particularly attractive when we wish to quantify anisotropic crystal growth, such as that in aqueous solutions and slurries, in which crystals extend in the different crystal directions at different velocities," says García-Moreno.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Before that, wild strains of yeast sometimes contaminated the slurries, causing “beer sickness” and gastrointestinal distress.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2023

Ash from the fire, which burned for more than a month, had clogged formerly pristine tributaries and turned them into black slurries.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2022

Periodically, the sediment is disturbed creating dense slurries that flush down the underwater canyons in large gravity-induced events called turbidites.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

“They slurried the house with retardant and about 20 acres around the farmstead. That lasts only so long. Now, I’m wondering when the next run of the fire will be at the house.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

Johl pumps water from wells and now conserves it by using drip irrigation for his trees, which favor the porous loam slurried down from the mountains over eons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2017

He stood on a stone bridge where the waters slurried into a pool and turned slowly in a gray foam.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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