Example Sentences

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Thousands of Tacomans, joined by rail fans from miles around, will slake their curiosity this weekend by exploring Sound Transit’s new Tacoma Link Hilltop Extension.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

If you’re angry and resentful now, imagine how much worse off you’ll be if your partner convinces you that having a child together will slake your thirst for change.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2017

Without such crumbs, a soil containing much clay or silt will "slake" when wet, turning into sticky mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

If water is not available, they will slake their thirst by sucking moisture from the stomach of a slaughtered kudu, the graceful spiral-horned antelope.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nature, that so shrieks for justice; Honour's thirst, that blood will slake; These are women's riddles, roughly Mixed to write them saint or snake.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George