How to Use slake in a Sentence

slake

verb

• But nothing feels good about envy, nor is there any clear way to slake it.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
• Not even the blood-thirstiest horror hounds will be able to slake their thirst for gore with this one.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• But even an inch of water could slake the thirst of a few of her cows and maybe some wild elk and deer, too.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• Wings cry out for libation, and fresh-fruit daiquiris can slake a thirst enhanced by jerk sauce.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• Brown landscapes turn green, dusts become muds, cracks turn into mouths through which the earth slakes its thirst.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• Biden was elected to slake the poison, bridge divides and solve problems.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
• May's the perfect month to squeeze in a bonus trip to slake that thirst for vacation that's already kicking in.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2018
• Here was a lone bighorn sheep on Death Canyon Shelf, near the trickling stream that would slake our thirst.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• The warm weather of late spring and summer brings certain wines to mind — racy rosés to slake our thirst, for example.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• New Englanders are blessed with abundant rainfall most years, enough to soak our soils and to slake our thirsts.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• Beset by heat, wine lovers will turn to an ice-cold rosé to slake our thirst, after hydrating with water, of course.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• Rain and snow will likely continue to slake the Salt River basin.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026
• Will Frances throw over Jol for Bill from True Blood, or is her thirst for vengeance not yet slaked?
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
• All of that winter moisture had simply sunken or slaked the thirsty vegetation, and vanished.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
• Others bore enough Heineken beer to slake the thirst of every adult in San Francisco for a year.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• This is still not enough to slake Cambodia’s growing thirst for cement, expected to reach five million tons this year.
  — Julia Wallace, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2017
• That factors out to more than $11 million per year to slake a terrestrial data center’s thirst.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
• In their dying hours, Dostum’s captives licked the sweat off their neighbors’ skin in a desperate attempt to slake their thirst.
  — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• The social internet sometimes seems to exist to slake our thirst for enchantment during our daily rounds.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
• There are enough people pushing hot chicken in Los Angeles to slake the most severe of cravings.
  — Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2021
• Instead, Diyala’s farmers have had to rely on roughly 200 wells to slake their orchards’ thirst as well as their own.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Since then, fans have had their thirst for BTS content slaked thanks to a series of solo albums, singles and tours.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
• Maybe that guy will build the fastest car on Earth, or design a new way to desalinate seawater to slake the world’s thirst, or find a way into space on his own.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• That a bunch of boys will insincerely avalanche into girls sports in order to gain some competitive advantage, to slake some hearty thirst for winning?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• This week, slake your thirst with a citrusy, refreshing white from Sicily and rosés from Provence and California.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• Instead, the damage from the nastiest election in decades seems to multiply by the week, stifling all efforts to slake its poison, and looks certain to linger for years.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 June 2018
• The Masquerade who can’t their RPG group together can still slake their thirst on these excellent games.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The world of this series is one in which carnivores have, by and large, given up eating meat to live alongside herbivores, but the urge to slake their thirst for blood is a hard one to overcome.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
• Absent that, the all-new 7th generation Mustang will slake most of your thirst for a Pony car experience.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Arriving like fine British clockwork at the end of this very uncozy year are two titles that will slake your thirst for clues, red herrings and, most of all, familiarity.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020