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How to use slash in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adverb

Slash means a swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip. Example: “A slash of his blade just missed my ear.”

Examples of slash by meaning

nounA swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.

  • A slash of his blade just missed my ear.

nounA wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.

  • He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.

nounA sharp reduction in resources allotted.

  • After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.

nounA deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.

  • He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.

nounThe slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.

  • Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark.1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240

nounThe loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

  • Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.

verbTo cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

  • They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
  • She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.

verbTo reduce sharply.

  • All prices slashed!
  • Competition forced them to slash prices.
  • Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.

More sentences with slash

  • Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.From the entry gash
  • His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies.From the entry slash and burn
  • Where is the gents? I need a slash.From the entry gents
  • We'll slash and burn this week and plant next.From the entry slash and burn
  • A slashed zero cannot be confused with the letter O.From the entry slashed
  • Broad transcriptions are typically enclosed in slashes.From the entry broad transcription
  • Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, danmei has also been influenced by Euro-American slash fictions.2021, Liang Ge, “Problematizing heteronormativity: Performativity, resignification and A/B/O fiction in Chinese danmei literature”, in…. From the entry danmei
  • Cutting line capacity by 4tph (around 30 trains a day) would slash revenues (seats).2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 41. From the entry here and now
  • In the November massacre in Douaouda, in Tipaza, men were castrated before their throats were slashed.2011, Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. From the entry Douaouda
  • With a lunge in tierce, Riccoboni slashed at the small man by his side.2010, Donna Russo Morin, The Secret of the Glass, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry shink
  • An example is slash inspired by the medieval-set Merlin, for which romantopic and intimatopic frameworks are useful.2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA…. From the entry intimatopic
  • Slash infuriates actors even when it focuses only on fictional characters."2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry actorfic
  • The slash community has extensively discussed this issue of slashdom as a homoerotic space.2006, Kristina Busse, “My Life is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances”, in Karen…. From the entry slashdom
  • He berserks, slashes, burns—oh, he’s formidable when he wants a piece of ground.2002, Pamela Kaufman, The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 240. From the entry berserk
  • His accomplice rushed in behind Angelo, jerked his head back and slashed his neck.2002, Betty Bradford Byers, The Big Payback, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry Colombian necktie
  • I think most slash is better than most hetsmut, but that's just me.2002 June 26, Atalanta Pendragonne [username], “Re: OT Anne Rice newsgroup”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet). From the entry hetsmut
  • A bit of everything this week - x-file, slash, MSR, humor, vignettes and Spenderfic!2000 January 3, Kelly, “A Quiet Place to Read update”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet). From the entry Spenderfic
  • Some were curious about the proportion of gen only, slash only, and bifictional readers.2000 June 6, S. Mallet (AKA Marmoset), “Preferences in Sentinel Fanfic -- New Poll”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet). From the entry bifictional
  • Arc lights slashed the cool air along the neon facades of bars and after-hours clubs.1995, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (page 147). From the entry nightcrawler
  • Fatal Attraction is a glossy slash movie about how men have to protect themselves from powerful women.1988 February 7, Michael Bronski, “"Medea," My Dear”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 11. From the entry slash movie
  • I have slashed veins in my ankles and am pleasantly bleeding to death in this hot water.1984, Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry let nature take its course
  • It should be pointed out, however, that women rarely slash their heads.1973, Vincent Crapanzano, The Ḥamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry, Berkeley, Calif.; […]: University of California Press, →ISBN…. From the entry jinniyya
  • You have to do more than take a little gas, or slash the wrists.1964 September 21, Saul Bellow, Herzog, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 179. From the entry daisy chain
  • The wide puffed and slashed sleeves and dangling baggy slops (pluderhose) of the sergeatnts (Fig.1931, Apollo - Volumes 13-14, page 318. From the entry pluderhose
  • By feinting a slash at one I made him throw up his saber to guard his head.1924 October 10, Harold Lamb, “Forward”, in Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, editor, Adventure, volume XLIX, number I, New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry feint
  • Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.2017 April 15, Emily Jordan, “Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO's "Girls" and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath”, in…. From the entry adjunct
  • Cloffice is my term for our closet slash office since our one floor single rancher has no closet space whatsoever.2010, Angela Olson, Behind the Weight, Xlibris, page 67. From the entry cloffice
  • The editor, Eric Lewis, had a slash and burn style of editing that left its mark on me forever.2005, David Bouchier, Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry spike
  • But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction.2005, Milly Williamson, The lure of the vampire: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, page 169. From the entry slash fiction

Meaning of slash

  1. noun A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
  2. noun A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
  3. noun A sharp reduction in resources allotted.

Full definition of slash

Questions about slash in a sentence

How do you use slash in a sentence?
Slash is used as a noun, verb and adverb. For example: “A slash of his blade just missed my ear.”
What is a short sentence with slash?
“All prices slashed!”
What does slash mean?
Slash means a swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slash (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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