Example Sentences

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The material lasted for about five days, after which it was sloughed off along with the top layer of tissue as the surgical wounds healed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

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

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2024

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

A snow bear crashed through the brush, huge and skeletal, half its head sloughed away to reveal the skull beneath.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin