Example Sentences

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But very early on, normal matter may have sloshed back and forth at supersonic speeds across a skeleton provided by colder, more sluggish dark matter.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2017

Colossal volumes of water would have sloshed back and forth and this action ought to be recorded in cascades of sediment.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2016

After decades in which corporate tax fiddles have mushroomed, and colossal amounts of criminal and kleptocrat money have sloshed through the world financial system, even limited progress is welcome.

From Economist • Jun. 13, 2013

But there’s a lot we don’t know about Mars’s ancient climate, so though oceans may have sloshed around at one point, it’s not clear whether large bodies of water persisted through the Hesperian.

From National Geographic

Water from the rivers, shaken by the quake, would have sloshed onto the land in a mini-tsunami.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann