slough in English

noun
1
a swamp.
The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
2
a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity.
the economic slough of the interwar years
verb
1
shed or remove (a layer of dead skin).
a snake sloughs off its old skin

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "slough" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "slough", or refer to the context using the word "slough" in the English Dictionary.

1. Snakes slough their skin regularly.

2. Never slough the details over!

3. A cicada throws its slough.

4. Lower Cottonwood Slough Lower Cottonwood Slough consisted of the removal of an abandoned road crossing that isolated Cottonwood Slough from being Backwatered by the Skagit River during most flows.

5. London - bound traffic is being diverted via Slough.

6. Now the steps end in a kind of stagnant slough.

7. 8 She slid into a slough of self-pity.

8. With the increasing of the age, the appetite would slough.

9. Not some earnest, eager and ignorant lady running a slimming clinic in Slough.

10. The Turtle bleeds into the slough system when the river overflows its banks.

11. Alongside Slough Town, Yate were the lowest ranked team in the competition.

12. 23 She seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.

13. Mr Slough said trade officials were slow to adopt new export procedures which came into force in January.

14. It delivers concentrated peeling action to slough - off dull , rough skin and stimulates active skin cell renewal.

15. Disney has an option to buy the entire 000 square-foot site from Slough Estates for an undisclosed sum.

16. Officials confirm that Kellys Slough has at times siphoned off up to half the flow of the Turtle River.

17. Most trains on the Oxford line were stopped at Didcot, there buses ran a shuttle service to Slough.

18. It will tear you down and pull you into a slough of evil thoughts and possibly of evil actions.

19. So today, I'm collecting what I shed or slough off -- my hair, skin and nails -- and I'm feeding these to edible mushrooms.

20. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, built a reflecting telescope in Slough, England, that was 40 feet in length, the largest of its day.

21. In some slough whose bottoms are covered with red dirt, the water detains through the entire year, and rain is accumulated in the tanks.

22. 16 At lunchtime we streaked through Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh reserve near Monterey,[www.Sentencedict.com] where egrets preened and massive sea lions lolled in the mud.

23. Function description: Penetrate deep into cells, supplement nutrition and water, quickly improve flaw and slough, moisturize lips, restore damaged skin in the daytime, leave lips roseate and moist.

24. Instead of modernists , I propose mainstream secularists as the forward looking Muslims who uniquely can wrench their co - religionists out of their current slough of despair and radicalism .

25. 14 Function description: Penetrate deep into cells, supplement nutrition and water, quickly improve flaw and slough, moisturize lips, restore damaged skin in the daytime, leave lips roseate and moist.

26. Tens of millions of immigrants have voted with their feet to slough off prior allegiances and join the boisterous experiment that makes " life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness " its official goal .

27. The Backwaters slough of Lake Harding is heavily used with Lake Harding Marina and the Backwaters Condo's Lake Harding, also known as Bartlett's Ferry Lake, is a 5,850-acre (23.7 km2) reservoir on the Chattahoochee River