splosh

American

[splosh] / splɒʃ /

verb (used with or without object)

splash.

splosh British

/ splɒʃ /

verb

to scatter (liquid) vigorously about in blobs

visitors can splosh in the world's largest man-made waterfall

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noun

an instance or sound of sploshing

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Example Sentences

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"I was showing a group around the beaver enclosure when I heard a distinctive sploshing sound," she said.

From BBC

According to the estimate given by the Met Office, how many Olympic swimming pools of rain sploshed onto the country that single day?

From BBC

“Wait—” Tiller said, but it was too late, and the bucket had come loose from the rope, and they heard it splosh in the water below.

From Literature

Not only are their bones preserved in the sediments but so too are the footprints they made as they sploshed through muddy ground.

From BBC

It is hard to imagine billions of tonnes of rock suddenly start to splosh about like a liquid - but that is what happened when an asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago.

From BBC

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