Example Sentences

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And although portions of his bank in recent weeks have sloughed into the river, Dix and his wife, Kim, aren’t about to leave their idyllic setting and home of more than 30 years.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2014

That we are a nation of immigrants – even forced to come as slaves – whose descendants have sloughed off old identities to become something new.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2010

Some of the shine may have sloughed off Dubai since the recession, but there has never been such a glaring example of the city as a product ­– as a brand, even.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010

Had I put them in hot water, I should in all probability have lost my fingers and toes; they p. 61would have sloughed off. 

From A Night in the Snow or, A Struggle for Life by Carr, Edmund Donald

The coarse-grained snow is strewn thickly with shards of bark that the trees have sloughed in their long hibernation, with shreds and tatters of their tempest-torn branches.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)