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Recent Examples of slosh from the Web
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And then picture that through these intestines coursed not only this morning’s breakfast in a slosh of digestive juices but another unlikely component: oxygen.
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Garlic chopped to a fine mist and warmed with clam juice and olive oil sloshes under the baked littlenecks, a dozen to an order.
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Ken rustled papers on his desk, fighting a weird slosh of tears.
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Origin and Etymology of slosh
probably blend of slop and slush
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Definition of slosh
intransitive verb
1 : to flounder or splash through water, mud, or slush
2 : to move with a splashing motion the water sloshed around him — Bill Alcine
transitive verb
1 : to splash about in liquid
2 : to splash (a liquid) about or on something
3 : to splash with liquid
Examples of slosh in a Sentence
The children sloshed through the big puddle.
Water sloshed in the bottom of the boat as it rocked.
Juice sloshed over the rim of her glass.
The child sloshed the water in the tub.
Recent Examples of slosh from the Web
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The opening song was met with cheers and a few beers sloshed on stage.
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With the amount of money sloshing through it, and global investment in its technology reaching $1.4 billion in 2016, bitcoin offers the finance-friendly country a promising new market.
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But it is enveloped in ambient city noise ranging from the sound of cars sloshing through rain to the incessant and insistent clanging of a Milwaukee River drawbridge.
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The first time, sludge sloshed over the back of the truck when the driver braked hard to avoid hitting a deer.
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The big green and white truck hummed gently as a dozen washers and dryers on board sloshed and spun through their cycles.
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The price of oil has been sloshing between $40 and $55 per barrel for much of the last year, down from a peak of more than $110 in the summer of 2013.
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Choppy waters lapped over the dockside picnic area at Brisbi's Restaurant and sloshed around the boats tied up in the Orleans Marina, set on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans' West End neighborhood.
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Jess (Johansson), Alice (Bell), Blair (Kravitz) and Frankie (Glazer) are inseparable and unapologetically sloshed at a frat party owning a game of beer pong.
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First Known Use of slosh
1844
SLOSH Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of slosh for English Language Learners
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: to walk through water, mud, etc., in a forceful and noisy way
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of a liquid : to move in a noisy or messy way
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: to cause (a liquid) to move in a noisy or messy way
SLOSH Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of slosh for Students
sloshed
;sloshing
1 : to walk with trouble through water, mud, or slush Deeper and deeper … they sloshed through the cavernous sewer. — Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy
2 : to move with a splashing motion
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