Example Sentences

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Tripoli, like other towns oh these shores, looks as though it were sloughing away.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

They were sloughing their personal honor that minute, fraternizing with Turkish prisoners.

From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot

Some of the colonial ornamental details about porches and roof were sloughing off or had already disappeared.

From The Yates Pride, a romance by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins