Example Sentences

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While my nonfiction audiobook listening was sorely lacking in 2019, my thirst for thorough reporting and well-formed analysis did not go unslaked.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2019

One upside was that the long wait seemed to light a fire of unslaked demand, she said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2016

History buffs with a sense of humor and an unslaked thirst for the macabre will find much to savor in “The Last American Vampire,” Seth Grahame-Smith’s latest, delightfully loopy riff on our nation’s past.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2015

But to the Beaver, his papers are simply an extension of himself, a setting for his unslaked passions, fighting tools, the instruments of his will.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ground under the manure pile should then be disinfected, either by the above-mentioned formalin solution or by unslaked lime thickly sprinkled over the soil.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry