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How to use slush in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Slush means half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground. Example: “As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.”

Examples of slush by meaning

nounHalf-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

  • As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

verbTo smear with slushy liquid or grease.

  • The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim.2008 July 9, Donald G. Mcneil, “Restless Pioneers, Seeding Brooklyn”, in New York Times

verbTo slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.

  • The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler
  • Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow.1994 March 4, Dave Wiethop, Sandi Abadinski, “Reader to Reader”, in Chicago Reader
  • A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

More sentences with slush

  • He is said to have used his party’s slush fund to buy votes in the election.From the entry slush fund
  • I’d like to see more experimentation in signal wave slush and future funk slush, for example.2022 August 20, Tori-Lynne Davis, “An interview with slushwave artist desert sand feels warm at night”, in Bearded Gentleman Music…. From the entry slushwave
  • A slush fund is a sum of money that is set aside as a reserve.[2021 June 28, Daniel Liberto, “Slush Fund”, in Investopedia. From the entry slush fund
  • The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund.2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)…. From the entry Ralph bucks
  • The deeper layers of Antirumgon's interior are semi-liquid slush, due to the presence of methanol.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Antirumgon, Gagarin System…. From the entry anti-freeze
  • Slish, slush, slurp went the sound of sophomores slurping up their icees.1991, “Slurp, Slurp, Slurp”, in Gretchen Auer, Tracy Gordon, editors, Gusher, volume 77, Shreveport, La.: C. E. Byrd High School, page 88…. From the entry icee
  • CERN bestows slush fund on the LHC.2008 September 28, Illiad [pseudonym; J. D. Frazer], “The Large Hadron Collider Game: Or ‘Why Science is Hard and Getting People to Fund…. From the entry bestow
  • Skirls of snow swept over the pavements, and in the roadway the tracks of cars were lined with brownish slush.2007 March 6, John Banville, Christine Falls: A Novel, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 307. From the entry skirl
  • The bright flame of the slush lamp caught its eye.1900 April 7, Jack London, “An Odyssey of the North”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry eldritch
  • But the slush stopped on Ms.2008 June 13, Robin Finn, “How to Curb Big Builders’ Big Appetites”, in New York Times. From the entry refunnel
  • Either the sorcerer's magic, or the filthy moat, or the crackleberries — or all three — had turned his guts to slush and wrung out his bowels.2005, Charles Coleman Finlay, The Prodigal Troll, page 25. From the entry crackleberry
  • Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat.2004, Alice Bach, Religion, Politics, Media in the Broadband Era, page 106. From the entry mink coat
  • We could never pause when hauling through current-driven slush and ice for fear that the floes would slam together and crush one or both of the hulls.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, pages 590-591. From the entry floe

Meaning of slush

  1. noun Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
  2. noun Liquid mud or mire.
  3. noun Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).

Full definition of slush

Questions about slush in a sentence

How do you use slush in a sentence?
Slush is used as a noun and verb. For example: “As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.”
What is a short sentence with slush?
“But the slush stopped on Ms.”
What does slush mean?
Slush means half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

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