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How to use slit in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Slit means a narrow cut or opening; a slot. Example: “He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.”

Examples of slit by meaning

verbTo cut a narrow opening.

  • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.

More sentences with slit

  • He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.From the entry narrow
  • There was a series of windowlike slits in the castle wall.From the entry windowlike
  • Push the snipped end of the piping bag through each slit into the bun.2021 September 30, The Bake Off Team, The Great British Bake Off: A Bake for all Seasons: The official 2021 Great British Bake Off book…. From the entry chouxnut
  • I hacked at it until it had long slits up to mini-length.2011 May 31, Chloe Rayban, Love In Cyberia, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry lamehead
  • Slit nostrils and gouged eyes ensured that Apius's exiled sister-sons need not be considered by the Senators.2010, Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium. From the entry sisterson
  • It makes for a cleaner job — you just slit their throats and drop them in.2009, Dane Love, Legendary Ayrshire: custom, folklore, tradition, page 208. From the entry murder hole
  • Stenopaeic slit refraction is usually attempted when retinoscopy and more conventional subjective refractive techniques, i.e.2009, Mark Rosenfield, Nicola Logan, Keith H. Edwards, Optometry: Science, Techniques and Clinical Management, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry stenopaeic
  • For overseeding an entire lawn, there's no better tool than a slit seeder or a verticutter.2005, Thomas Carpenter, John English, Outdoor living: the ultimate project guide, page 406. From the entry verticutter
  • A series of beams slit the air in a succession of rapid thwips.2002, Karen Hancock, Arena, page 41. From the entry thwip
  • Classically, iridodonesis is seen on slit lamp examination with eye movement.2001, William Tasman, Edward A. Jaeger, The Wills Eye Hospital Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page…. From the entry subluxation
  • In daylight, she — it — appears less human, its lips raised scars, its eyes switch-bladed slits.1997, Scott Heim, In Awe. From the entry switch-bladed
  • Then they pull your tongue through the slit and watch as you slowly strangle.1994, Ronald K. Siegel, Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, Crown, →ISBN, page 276, →ISBN. From the entry Colombian necktie
  • I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press. From the entry accordion
  • With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46. From the entry gash
  • "I'll slit your throat if you squawk on us," Krantz threatened.1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 68. From the entry squawk
  • Buck Mulligan slit a steaming scone in two and plastered butter over its smoking pith.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry pith
  • Using the point of a knife, make three slits evenly spaced apart in the base of each chouxnut.2021 September 30, The Bake Off Team, The Great British Bake Off: A Bake for all Seasons: The official 2021 Great British Bake Off book…. From the entry chouxnut
  • "We're no buzzies!' Manuel says, but the slit scrapes shut.2017, Denise Mina, The Long Drop, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry buzzie
  • Very good,” the store owner said, eyeing the slits on the side of the dress that exposed Naeema's cinnamon brown skin.2015, Meesha Mink, All Hail the Queen: An Urban Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry gram
  • He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.2013, Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel. From the entry toy
  • They have the upper jaw fused with the cranium and a gill cover over the four gill slits.2012, Harold M. Tyus, “Diversity 1: Chordates to Sharks”, in Ecology and Conservation of Fishes, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, pages…. From the entry chimera
  • The guttae (guttata is an adjective!) are evident on slit lamp biomicroscopy as tiny drop-like relucencies on the posterior corneal surface.2011, Ralph C. Eagle, Eye Pathology: An Atlas and Text, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 98. From the entry relucency
  • His eyes a prosecutor's shone through slits, devility stood to twist the rope to my neck, gaunt limb burdened to crink.2010, Charles E. Miller, The Sentence, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry devility
  • I had never realized how womanly his lips are — a female reptile's razor slit, pursing in an unlizardlike way.2009, Alexander Stuart, The War Zone, page 164. From the entry unlizardlike
  • Cut off 1 inch of aloe vera rib, slit open and rub yellowish pulp directly on the skin.2003, Patricia Bragg, Paul C Bragg, Apple Cider Vinegar Miracle Health System, page 22. From the entry aloe vera
  • Some investigators recommend touching the corneal epithelium at the slit lamp with a microsponge applicator in patients with suspected loose epithelium.2002, Dimitri T. Azar, Douglas Koch, LASIK (Laser in Situ Keratomileusis): Fundamentals, Surgical Techniques, and Complications. From the entry microsponge
  • Branchial abductors move the epibranchials apart, opening the gill slits.2000, Stephen M. Deban, David B. Wake, “Chapter 3: Aquatic Feeding in Salamanders”, in Kurt Schwenk, editor, Feeding: Form, Function and…. From the entry epibranchial
  • When I asked him how many gun slits there were, he said he hadn’t counted and he couldn’t care less.1989, Kati David, “Robin: England”, in A Child’s War: World War II Through the Eyes of Children, New York, N.Y.: Four Walls Eight Windows…. From the entry mummy's boy
  • The mouth was a slit cavern of darkness.1985, Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe, New York: Picador, page 394. From the entry willow
  • A draft of cold air smote their hosened legs, and through a small slit window came the dry smell of snow.1961, Olive Eckerson, “Edward, My Son!”, in The Golden Yoke: A Novel of the War of the Roses, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., →LCCN…. From the entry hosened
  • He dressed in a mannered fashion with turned-back cuffs and double slits to his coat, bow-ties and fancy waistcoats.1960, Ian Fleming, “From a View To a Kill”, in For Your Eyes Only, London: Jonathan Cape. From the entry strike a false note
  • As the telescope is swung round, the slit image for each wavelength is brought into coincidence with the cross-wires.1957, Richard Samuel Longhurst, Geometrical and Physical Optics, page 78. From the entry cross-wires
  • Suggestions: Before baking, insert 1½-inch pieces of uncooked macaroni in several of the slits in the top crust.1957, Michael Gore, “All About Pies […]”, in The Encyclopedia of Household Hints and Dollar Stretchers […], Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover…. From the entry overjuicy
  • Another old Tahitian poncho of yellow cloth in the British Museum has a slit neck and unfringed edges.1944, Peter Henry Buck, Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands, page 433. From the entry unfringed
  • Fanny's scissors moved steadily round the armhole and slit down the sleeve, revealing a surprisingly soft white arm and shoulder.1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section viii. From the entry cicatrice
  • The skirt, of course, is slit to suit.1913 September 3, “Cartoons and Comments”, in Puck, volume LXXIV, number 1905, New York, N.Y.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, unnumbered page…. From the entry hiplet
  • Lloyd turned to her mail, and one after another slit the envelopes, woman fashion, with a shell hair-pin.1902, Frank Norris, chapter 9, in A Man’s Woman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 232. From the entry woman-fashion
  • I take the knife and slit the smaller stems free, leaving the stigma alone, dancing melancholically in the wake of my blade.2023, K Patrick, Mrs S, 4th Estate, page 136. From the entry melancholically
  • The peak of the peaky-blinder was usually slit open and pennies or razor-blades or pieces of slate inserted and stitched up again.2019, Carl Chinn, Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs.. From the entry peaky blinder

Meaning of slit

  1. noun A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
  2. noun The vulva.
  3. noun A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

Full definition of slit

Questions about slit in a sentence

How do you use slit in a sentence?
Slit is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.”
What is a short sentence with slit?
“The mouth was a slit cavern of darkness.”
What does slit mean?
Slit means a narrow cut or opening; a slot.

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