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
The state has relatively young mountains from a geology standpoint, meaning much of its steep terrain is still in motion and covered in loose rocks and soil that can be sloughed off easily.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 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
He put his back to all of Phippsburg—Lord, to the entire continent—till with a shrug he sloughed off its heavy stillness and looked for a way to climb down to the water.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
