slough
noun
the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
was sloughing
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past progressiveof slough.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In this chapter of the story, WWF fired him with the claim that he was sloughing off in their humanitarian mission to educate and equip him for a productive adult career.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
Rickfield was sloughing off the Doctor, but Sternman was here to tell a story, and he would finish.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
The endless worm of wagons that was wriggling through the town carrying movers to the West, was sloughing many of its scales in Sycamore Ridge.
From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White
The sick man had suffered terrible exposure, and the tissue of his lungs was sloughing away.
From Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail by James Oliver Curwood
