Example Sentences

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Not one of the galleries has a skylight, although some have one or two slender slits atop the walls that admit weak slivers of borrowed light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

She’s wearing a long, drapey skirt with high slits that reveal her tattooed legs, and her signature nails click against one another as she gestures with her hands.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

It found that these particles, which can either act like a particle or wave, acted as waves passing through both slits in the experiment when they were unobserved.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Another male koala stares blankly through narrowed slits.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

Amari looked up and his eyes turned to slits.

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson