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How to use slosh in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Slosh means to shift chaotically; to splash noisily. Example: “The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.”

Examples of slosh by meaning

verbTo shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

  • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

verbTo cause to slosh.

  • The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

verbTo make a sloshing sound.

  • His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

verbTo pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.

  • The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
  • He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

verbTo move noisily through water or other liquid.

  • The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

verbTo punch (someone).

  • “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII

nounA quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

  • We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.

nounSlush.

  • Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This, page 299

More sentences with slosh

  • Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.From the entry baffle
  • An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon. From the entry handbag
  • 'Buckets of blood, huh?' 'Big sloshing buckets.2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love: Alex Delaware 8. From the entry how's that for
  • Hearing Ken sloshing in the bath, she quickly located her soccasins and made her way downstairs to plan the finer details of her post-funeral gathering.2021 April 19, Daren Kay, The Brightonians, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry soccasin
  • It’s impossible to move a shallow, triangular martini glass quickly in any direction without sloshing wildly, revealing your pathetic lack of suavitude to all.2001 August 22, Kathleen Stebbins, “Martinis are back in style — if you don’t mind the guilt”, in Reno Gazette-Journal, page 2G. From the entry suavitude
  • Now there were two objects, ricocheting off a rocky headland, occasionally bumping each other with a squdge inaudible above the sloshing water.1940, C. Daly King, Bermuda Burial, page 195. From the entry squdge

Meaning of slosh

  1. verb To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
  2. verb To cause to slosh.
  3. verb To make a sloshing sound.

Full definition of slosh

Questions about slosh in a sentence

How do you use slosh in a sentence?
Slosh is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.”
What is a short sentence with slosh?
“'Buckets of blood, huh?' 'Big sloshing buckets.”
What does slosh mean?
Slosh means to shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slosh (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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