Example Sentences

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The moon's beams pierced the trees and fell upon a glistening pool of water where a wildcat was slaking its thirst.

From The Thirsty Sword by Leighton, Robert

When Gray soared into the somewhat turgid pindaric tradition of his day, he too was slaking a thirst for rhetorical complexities.

From An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript by Gray, Thomas

A lamb her thirst was slaking, Once, at a mountain rill.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

A wolf was slaking his thirst at a stream, when a lamb left the side of his shepherd, came down the creek to the wolf, passed round him with considerable ostentation, and began drinking below.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose