slough
noun
the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
will slough
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future tenseof slough.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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As you cook the pasta in salted boiling water, some of its coarse exterior will slough off into the water, turning that water cloudy and extra starchy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Your therapist will slough away dull skin with SpaRitual’s Infinitely Loving Sugar Scrub in a fragrant jasmine, and after you rinse it off, you’ll be treated to a relaxing hour-long massage.
From Forbes ● Mar. 11, 2015
It is delicate in this sense, that if it is not rightly performed in the individual case the glands will slough.
From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard
This Gardiner turn'd his coat in Henry's time; The serpent that hath slough'd will slough again.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
And Tschaikowsky will slough his morbidness and improvise a Slavic Hallelujah Chorus when his unseen patroness comes into her own.
From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven
